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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by baxuz on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:43AM (#44787418)
1. To access a website you need a limited anonymized token that proves you are a human being, issued by a state authority

2. the end

I am firmly convinced that this should be the future in the next decade, since the internet as we know it has been weaponized and ruined by social media, bots, state actors and now AI.

There should exist an internet for humans only, with a single account per domain.

Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by glenstein on Monday August 04, 2025 @12:18PM (#44787928)
A fascinating variation on this same issue can be found in Neal Stephenson's "Fall, or Dodge in Hell". There the solution is (1) discredit weaponized social media in its entirety by amplifying it's output exponentially and make its hostility universal in all directions, to the point that it's recognizeable as bad faith caricature. That way it can't be strategically leveraged with disproportionate directional focus against strategic targets by bad actors and (2) a new standard called PURDA, which is kind of behavioral signature as the mark of unique identity.