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.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 days 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.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 days 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.