Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by Cloudflare

Re:Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by C... by WORMS_EAT_WORMS on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @10:43AM (#33008549)

If Google or Facebook offered Cloudflare $100B they’d probably have to take it. Add a quick TOS change and we are s-o-l. Hello gigantic super revenue earning centralized ad network (!$!$!).

In all seriousness, I don’t see Cloudflare centralizing the web. I see them decentralizing it by empowering smaller folks with easier tools for scale.

It’s a stretch of argument / not perfect —- but I am glad the competition exists. It makes sense for Cloudflare to be big and privacy focused when competing in the big net real estate space of the modern web.

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Re:Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by C... by cryptonym on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:00AM (#33008770)

Decentralising where compute is running but centralising a lot in terms of technologies and actors. While the first is about efficiency, the later is about freedom and resiliency.

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Re:Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by C... by WORMS_EAT_WORMS on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:09AM (#33008886)

Yep. I see your point (it is an exhausted but not invalid argument hence the CEO’s comment above) and just disagree. Time will tell!

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Re:Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by C... by majke on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @12:39PM (#33010017)

Cloudflare's core asset is the trust. Sure, it's possible to capitalize on that, but then the game is over. I think everyone is aware of that.

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