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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think the point is to leave the bots out. It looks more like grabbing even more info about you, because you can know a lot about the person just telling them to wave their hand on a cam:

  • sex, gender, skin colour, age
  • do they have calluses? This hints profession
  • do they bite the nails, leave them to grow too much, or carefully trim them? This hints psychological factors
  • what’s on the background? Even a blank background hints the person is a bit more privacy-conscious.
  • etc.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All good points. I was just thinking I probably would not be willing to do any camera-based captcha.

    At a certain point if they force me to stop being online maybe that’s not so bad.

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a bit of idealism from my part, but I’m hoping way more than just forcing us (people in general) to stop being online: I want to see all this crap backfiring and prompting the formation of a parallel internet. One that is user-friendly, but corporation-hostile, even at the expense of small convenient bits. Mostly from parts of the “old internet” being glued together: the Gemini protocol, the Fediverse, TOR, etc.

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• ruby@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the bots won looooooong ago, they’ve been faster and more accurate at the captchas for quite a while. there’s even browser plugins that automatically solve the audio captcha.

  this is just biometric data collection, because they know that many people will use it if it’s presented to them, especially if it’s less tedious that clicking 15 slowly disappearing traffic lights. the average joe isn’t doing a bypass with a virtual camera.

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