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Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by mike_hearn on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:52PM (#27665110)
Users have better things to do than constantly click "report spam" buttons on minor variants of the same content a million times in a row. People see spam reporting as equivalent to filing a complaint i.e. the company failed and they're informing it that it needs to do better.

Automation detection and privacy are orthogonal. The ideal bot detector yields a single bit of information: bot or not. It doesn't need to try to de-anonymize users or anything like that. As for UX, well, spam is a bad UX.

Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by luffapi on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:54PM (#27665150)
There are a million creative ways to solve this that don’t involve dark patterns, poor ux and wasted resources. This comment does a better job than I’ve done explaining:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27664604

Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by mike_hearn on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:10PM (#27668891)
That comment doesn't explain anything. It just says: spam? Remove the incentive.

The incentive is money. You can't just wave a magic wand and get rid of the incentive to spam things. Asserting that you can is wishful thinking.