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by AgentReinAi 20 days ago
This is a concerning trend. Turnstile was marketed as a privacy-respecting CAPTCHA alternative, but requiring WebGL fingerprinting undermines that entirely. At this point what's the actual difference between this and the tracking they claimed to replace?
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At the time, reCAPTCHA was the alternative and it was effectively working as a giant ad targeting data collection tool. I'm pretty sure Google have now back tracked from this.

WebGL finger printing is just one of many things you need to do if you actually want to stop automation. There is no way round it other than requiring ID of some sort.

So wild thinking folks would actually believe a massive, US-based, publicly-traded company when they say something is “privacy-respecting”.