alt Hacker NewsInevitably the internet will have two types of users:
1. The anti-bot bots that must stop you from proceeding, because they aren't entirely sure you aren't a bot
2. The bots that can get past them, which we all must eventually deploy, if we want a chance to visit a web pageReplies
thenthenthen • today at 7:54 PM
Early 2000’s they turned of PUBLIC tv here. To receive public funded TV you now need a digital subscription. I never thought this would happen to the internet, as in… its becoming more of an intranet everyday.
livingsoft • today at 8:28 PM
yes, but it can be not so grim - we just need to equip everyone with the means to grow their own local webs, and find a way to connect them by p2p. call it Mycelial Web: federation of local webs that grows by processing the dead material of the open web into personal http worlds grown in containers.
Why would anyone ever want to solve 99 Cloudflare captchas a day if you can get a bot to do it instead?