alt Hacker NewsThere are definitely ways of proving you're a human, unfortunately it also means giving up your privacy and anonymity (IRL ID Checks combined with appropriate routing and validation - even going as far as certifying the browser being used)
Obviously though none of us want to give that up, so the alternative is that we can almost never 'prove' we are human especially with bots getting as smart or smarter than the average redditor.
Imagine proving you have no financial incentive to get on the whitelist.
Reminded of the mules renting Airbnbs to use as USA-based delivery locations (tricking grandma into FedExing cash for one scam or another) - https://getrichslowly.org/scambaiters (probably Jim Browning + Mark Rober specifically https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xvjjpzyiig4 )
But! Using a network of real ID-checked humans to scrape the web, what would that be--half a billion times harder than Firecrawl or whatever they use today?
Too bad it's dead in the water today because so many (like me) hate the idea so much. Perhaps a biometric dongle (retinal-scanning orb :-/ ) that the staunchest privacy hawks stamp with their seals of approval because it's somehow nearly impossible to go horribly horribly... horribly... wrong... Yeah, anybody who can crack this issue, hope you have the free time or find the funding to try it, we need ya.