Published at LXer:

As much as the Web continues to inspire us, we know that sites put up with an awful lot of abuse in order to stay online. Denial of service attacks, fraud and other flavors of abusive behavior are a constant pressure on website operators. One way that sites protect themselves is to find some way […]

Read More...

>One way that sites protect themselves is to find some way to sort “good” visitors from “bad.”

What is a "bad" visitor? If I understand what "Privacy Pass" is, it will stop me from using the WEB all together. There is the Gemini Protocol (and gopher), which is were I will be forced to. I already use Gemini and so far so good.

If you have a WEB site that does not need personal information from the visitor, then no need for a CAPTCHA, simple. These sites only want CAPTCHAs to get as much information from you as possible. I would not be surprised if these CAPTCHAs reads through your cache and cookies to see what you have been up to.

I already have a very hard time with CAPTCHAs as the are, if this new thing is harder to use, it is back to the old days. I will start blocking sites that makes it hard for me to get to their content.

I almost believe this is a ploy to force people to access sites from their Cell Phones instead of a General Purpose Computer. Your Cell has a treasure trove of personal information sites can get at. I do not remember the last time a CAPTCHA showed up on my cell.