[Kalium]

One of the non-obvious consequences is that any system designed to use technical measures to distinguish between humans and computers will wind up very sensitive. There's an arms race, and us real users are caught in the middle.

There's a vast army of computers doing their best to pretend to be human. The whole point of any kind of CAPTCHA is to try to catch them out - and every measure gets worse over time. So companies like Google look at everything they can see that helps them distinguish typical humans from robots.

This has a nasty side-effect. A lot of measures intended to preserve privacy have the incidental effect of making the privacy-sensitive user look more like a computer and less like a human. Not saving cookies and not executing JS are classic bot moves. This plays directly into the sensitivity that has been engineered over time in order to catch more computers posing as humans.

I don't know any easy resolution to this tension. Maybe you do? I really hope so. The internet is overrun with abusive behavior and the amount of work that goes into keeping it at bay is staggering.