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by shadowgovt
635 days ago
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> This feels like a step down the path to a world where the majority of websites use sophisticated security products that gatekeep access to those who pay and those who don't ... and that future has been a long time coming. People who want an alternative to advertising-supported online content? This is what that alternative looks like. Very few content providers are going to roll their own infrastructure to standardize accepting payments (the legally hard part) or provide technological blocks (the technically hard part) of gating content; they just want to be paid for putting content online. |
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Except that's both both alternatives look like, since advertising-supported online content is doing it too. Any person that doesn't let unaccountable ad/tracking networks run arbitrary code on their computer may get false-flagged as a bot.