You don't think that some people simply disagree with the idea that this is bad? Or like maybe the CAPTCHA company who put out the post has an agenda here? So you want to go after engineers personally?

I wonder what you've done that might warrant harassment?

Look at how complicated CAPTCHAs are getting to try to be unsolvable with AI - it's a losing game. This and the WEI proposal are trying to solve a very, very real problem. If you continue to deny the problem, or every proposal solution without working towards an acceptable one, people will route around the blockage.

The usual argumentation is "I need to make a living" and "if I didn't build it someone else would have done an even worse job, like this at least I could be an activist on the inside and guide the efforts to make it better".

These are private actors. It's not acceptable to harass people for building things that are lawful but that you don't like.

If you don't like this functionality, participate in democracy and work with your representatives to make it unlawful. But be prepared to humbly lose if the majority disagrees with you.

You're not, however, entitled to a "heckler's veto."

I think the better alternative to making engineers "feel uncomfortable opening their door, walking down the street" is for us to collectively ask if the solution isn't to touch more grass and rely less on the technology we've all come to blindly accept as required.

I mean, I hate this QR code shit as much as anyone, but c'mon, we can and should be better - both in how we treat others, and how much we rely on this shit.

one person's villain is another person's hero.

I imagine if they would be named and shamed, they would get huge contracts in companies like oracle.