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I would at least hope we'd consider whether more 'fixes' are actually worth it. It seems to me that 40 years of 'fixes' haven't done much to combat spam and the like, and has instead just made it harder for people like me to access and browse the Internet.


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Terr_10/02/2024

I'm trying to discern a positive proposal from that, and the best I can extract seems to be "stop fighting and just let the bad people operate unopposed", which doesn't seem workable to me.

Security/anti-spam is probably not biggest accessibility factor in the last 40 years of change anyway: It's easier to make an alternate CAPTCHA route than to convince management a phone-app is unnecessary, or to correctly annotate everything with aria/alt-text properties in all the languages.

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