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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Well, it looks like they state three options:

  • Passkeys. This won't work over a medium term, period. It's tantamount to saying that SSH keys prove someone is human. If there's enough interest, they'll just make a software passkey solution that can work. Passkey being "human interactive" is purely a client-side construct.

  • Biometric services. Strictly speaking, not an ID but it's not hard to imagine leveraging capturing biometrics to an ID like scenario.

  • Government IDs. Well that's self explanatory.

They do state distancing themselves from the ID by trusting a third party service, but 3rd party ID service is still a thing.

Of course, this seems to be only after someone accuses you of being a bot and Reddit bothering to pay attention. Which may be almost no one.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Precisely. Any of the listed options is better than a captcha. None of the options are perfect, obviously, we're using yesterday's tech to solve a tomorrow's problem, but it's something, and it doesn't immediately mean "privacy online is dead".

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'd rather put up with a captcha than do any on those other things, especially if it was temporary. Or maybe they could do something like Anubis

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    One you prove your not a bot. Hopefully it work that way, but I suppose it may not

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Not sure I understand what you mean.

    Like, you verify the account and then give it away to a bot? My assumption is that the "proof of human" would be a unique identifier, meaning that once you've attached it to an account, you can't use it to verify another.

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