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It will get bypassed easily. The lengths spammers will go to for "organic" advertising that is automated doesn't really have limits. Fine, add WEI, spammers wil

It will get bypassed easily. The lengths spammers will go to for "organic" advertising that is automated doesn't really have limits. Fine, add WEI, spammers will write code that literally issues native events to a real browser on a farm of devices. I actually saw this discussion in the WEI proposal GitHub regarding Chrome extensions. What gets a pass? Captcha was never really the limiting factor for spammers. It was generating human readable content at scale (comments, reviews, responses, etc). But with AI that's not an issue anymore.

hinkley 3y ago
For E2E testing you'll have to allow Selenium or something else to drive the browser, and they'll just figure out how much they can disable in a browser to pack as many requests per second onto a given amount of hardware.
alaxapta7 3y ago
> It will get bypassed easily. For now. But we're slowly walking towards the future where you can only consume web using an official and conformant browser running on a locked-down platform. That'd make it considerably harder for spammers, but of course spam isn't what this is about, it's more like a cherry on top.
- chrismarlow9 3y ago
  I think it will be more of a nationalized identification which is scary. It's the only way I can think of to actually get rid of spam at a "low entry barrier" I see it like everything else we use for communication. Still junk mail, still robo calls, still spam texts. And you will still get spam under your nationalized id. But YOU(the individual) won't be allowed to do the same. Edit: on a brighter side with high capacity drives being cheap and various wireless protocols sneaker net might be a thing. Your info won't be up to date but maybe that's not so bad, no doom scrolling. Beware the honeypots though.
  - MichaelZuo 3y ago
    Yes, one you get to needing a fake passport, or other equally stringent ID, from a list of authorized countries, the price per spam bot will basically be too high for any viable commercial spam. This might actually be a pretty enjoyable experience for a lot of users. If every user can be assured that every communciation is actually from a real person, or a real organization that can be sued, or at least a fake personality that someone put tens of thousands of dollars behind.

hinkley 3y ago

For E2E testing you'll have to allow Selenium or something else to drive the browser, and they'll just figure out how much they can disable in a browser to pack as many requests per second onto a given amount of hardware.

alaxapta7 3y ago

> It will get bypassed easily. For now. But we're slowly walking towards the future where you can only consume web using an official and conformant browser running on a locked-down platform. That'd make it considerably harder for spammers, but of course spam isn't what this is about, it's more like a cherry on top.

chrismarlow9 3y ago
I think it will be more of a nationalized identification which is scary. It's the only way I can think of to actually get rid of spam at a "low entry barrier" I see it like everything else we use for communication. Still junk mail, still robo calls, still spam texts. And you will still get spam under your nationalized id. But YOU(the individual) won't be allowed to do the same. Edit: on a brighter side with high capacity drives being cheap and various wireless protocols sneaker net might be a thing. Your info won't be up to date but maybe that's not so bad, no doom scrolling. Beware the honeypots though.
- MichaelZuo 3y ago
  Yes, one you get to needing a fake passport, or other equally stringent ID, from a list of authorized countries, the price per spam bot will basically be too high for any viable commercial spam. This might actually be a pretty enjoyable experience for a lot of users. If every user can be assured that every communciation is actually from a real person, or a real organization that can be sued, or at least a fake personality that someone put tens of thousands of dollars behind.