>>13403Not a lawyer, but I would think it might be hard to argue if there isn't really anything preventing someone from buying up blocks of IP addresses and selling MITM load balancing. The popularity of shitty services seems to be an accident of business.
Beyond that, there is obviously advantage to doing fingerprinty stuff to filter bots. The obscure browsers are going to take time to work around, and that's not even if they are less fingerprinty.
We need something beyond browser fingerprints, or even IP addresses.
>>13402 (OP)A cool idea that has been banging around in my head (and some other heads) for a while is a proof of humanity based on peer-to-peer web of trust. There are projects that work semi-centralized like this, saves the cost of PoW for a local blockchain.
It would be cool if it were so prevalent that you just centralize around yourself- "you" being the web server that wants to filter bots. They send you some signature chain that shows they are vouched for by a chain of people… people who you, transitively, trust enough to serve them a page.
But this would mean the end user has to store a private key securely… which I have a feeling is somehow a psychotic expectation, even if we could cheaply revoke them.