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Re:Botspam apocalypse by figmaheart255 on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:22AM (#32341896)
While clearly bot spam is on the rise, we need to be very careful on how we choose to deal with it. Cloudflare has already introduced "proof-of-Apple" [1], where proven Apple devices get special treatment, bypassing captchas. Later we might see websites that are only accessible via Google, Microsoft, or Apple devices. If we continue down this path, we'll end up with a social credit system ruled by big tech.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31751203

Re:Botspam apocalypse by kube-system on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:13PM (#32346351)
We basically already have "social credit" systems, we just call them anti-fraud/anti-spam/reputation scores.