Comment by kjkjadksj

Comment by kjkjadksj 3 days ago

5 replies

Maybe there will be a way to certify humanness. Human testing facility could be a local office you walk over to get your “I am a human” hardware key. Maybe it expires after a week or so to ensure that you are still alive.

palata 3 days ago

But if that hardware key is privacy-preserving (i.e. websites don't get your identity when you use it), what prevents you from using it for your illegal activity? Scrapers and spam are built by humans, who could get such a hardware key.

  • kjkjadksj 2 days ago

    You’d at least be limited to deploying a single verified scraper which might be too slow for people to bother with.

    • palata 2 days ago

      Not even: the government is supposed to provide you with more than one token (how would you verify yourself as a human to more than one website otherwise?)

      • kjkjadksj 2 days ago

        The idea would be a connection requires the key so you could both verify at more than one website and be limited to one instance per website.

        • palata 2 days ago

          If you use the same token on more than one website, it's not privacy-preserving anymore.