Precisely. Any of the listed options is better than a captcha. None of the options are perfect, obviously, we’re using yesterday’s tech to solve a tomorrow’s problem, but it’s something, and it doesn’t immediately mean “privacy online is dead”.
Like, you verify the account and then give it away to a bot? My assumption is that the “proof of human” would be a unique identifier, meaning that once you’ve attached it to an account, you can’t use it to verify another.
Precisely. Any of the listed options is better than a captcha. None of the options are perfect, obviously, we’re using yesterday’s tech to solve a tomorrow’s problem, but it’s something, and it doesn’t immediately mean “privacy online is dead”.
I’d rather put up with a captcha than do any on those other things, especially if it was temporary. Or maybe they could do something like Anubis
Why would it be temporary?
One you prove your not a bot. Hopefully it work that way, but I suppose it may not
Not sure I understand what you mean.
Like, you verify the account and then give it away to a bot? My assumption is that the “proof of human” would be a unique identifier, meaning that once you’ve attached it to an account, you can’t use it to verify another.