• ouillie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m ok with sites using WEI as an alternative to captcha, but if any site tries to fail closed on WEI I will be first in line to join the DDOS.

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      1 year ago

      To be clear - even in that world, not having WEI would make you much more suspicious than a ‘normal’ user, so you’re effectively describing every Firefox and/or Linux (etc) user seeing captchas all the damn time. If Cloudflare used this as a signal, that’d be a captcha for 20% of websites.

      Try using Tor today and see how inconvenient the web becomes. Just ‘not blocked’ doesn’t mean you get a reasonable experience.

      The only healthy route for the web is fair access and free competition between clients. WEI sets that on fire.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, if the experience is degraded but not completely broken, I’m still down to ddos the perpetrators. And I get the feeling I’m not the only one. I could see this getting pretty organized.