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by jeroenhd 19 days ago
This has nothing to do with identity and everything with bots and scrapers. Nobody but a handful of advertisers cares about the actual fingerprint of your browser, all they care about is letting through people and rejecting bots.

If tech companies weren't waging a war against public resources in an attempt to get their grubby little hands on every bit of data they can, we wouldn't be in this mess.

If there were a more reliable "I'm not a bot" signal and maybe some reliable method of rate limiting, we could do away with Turnstile and just let people through again. Unfortunately, every well-intended privacy measure is abused by AI's war against the public good.