half@lemm.eetoThe Andromedus Galacticus Collection@lemm.ee•Everyone hates Captchas. These technologies may finally kill them.English
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1 year agoFingerprinting. This clickbait-ass post links to a puff piece for browser fingerprinting written by and for a web media business whose bottom line would be substantially aided by a positive public perception of browser fingerprinting.
They acknowledge the privacy-damaging elements of captcha, but they don’t have a problem with uniquely identifying your browser. This from a company whose default web product is so bloated and abusive that I need a request matrix and a userscript engine just to read its clickbait. Fuck!
Shitting yourself is not better than doing nothing.