[brookst]

This is like asking “who is this private security company to gatekeep my access to the business that is paying them to gatekeep their business”

[Avamander]

Except it's some random company picking me for "extra checks" for no specified reason, and I don't even get a warning that there's this entity there.

[brookst]

There's literally a guard standing at the door. You are free to leave / not visit the site. And nobody owes you an explanation for the security practices of the business that you want to patronize.

[tremon]

Except that the guard in question is not under the business owner's control, and the business owner doesn't have a way to override the decision of the bouncer. In many cases, they don't even know how many customers the bouncer blocks.

[Avamander]

This is after trying to enter, I can't retroactively opt out of the profiling and fingerprinting their captcha does for example.