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To be honest, it already feels like a resource denial effort. Reminds me of Paul Virilio’s description of systems that deliberately inhibit human speed.
by rgrieselhuber 3y ago
To be honest, it already feels like a resource denial effort. Reminds me of Paul Virilio’s description of systems that deliberately inhibit human speed.
- IggleSniggle 3y agoCAPTCHA is just usefully accidental punishment for evading surveillance capitalism while casually browsing the web. There are sites where getting through a CAPTCHA is literally impossible if you are using privacy controls, you just get stuck in an endless loop of CAPTCHA completion. But if you're "logged in" to the surveillance network, there's zero friction whatsoever.
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoIndeed.
- rvnx 3y agoFurthermore, we can easily imagine that in +/- 10 years, your device will ask you to "verify your identity" using your ID card and a selfie, and in return, you will get this juicy Web Environment Integrity token that acts like a key to unlock Captcha and pornographic websites.
- rightbyte 3y agoLike the ordering kiosks at McDonalds?