[inetknght]

> but not if web services intentionally refuse to do business with them.

And in many ways, I'd be fine with that if they'd be up-front and honest about it.

Alas, Microsoft certainly is not. Cloudflare is not either. Many of these services just sit there and pretend like they're loading without showing any sort of error indication. Much like a tarpit but it's malicious on the business side and with little to no recourse on the real human side.

[msm_]

Microsoft may be malicious, buy it's more likely it's incompetent.

Cloudflare is not malicious, but is between a rock and a hard place. By caring about privacy you are, indeed, looking more suspicious. In a perfectly anonymous world, reputation-based captchas couldn't work. It's OK if you think they shouldn't exist, but Cloudflare customers and most people like them.

Everyone else is not on some secret plan to destroy the Linux Desktop, they just don't test their websites on linux/firefox (because "nobody uses that"), which makes them unusable, which causes people to drift off linux/firefox.