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by figmaheart255 1418 days ago
While clearly bot spam is on the rise, we need to be very careful on how we choose to deal with it. Cloudflare has already introduced "proof-of-Apple" [1], where proven Apple devices get special treatment, bypassing captchas. Later we might see websites that are only accessible via Google, Microsoft, or Apple devices. If we continue down this path, we'll end up with a social credit system ruled by big tech.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31751203

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We basically already have "social credit" systems, we just call them anti-fraud/anti-spam/reputation scores.