This is why Apple and Cloudflare have come up with Private Access Tokens and why Google is working on remote attestation in the browser. The traditional ways to ban bots just don’t work anymore.
It’s probably both if we’re being honest. A lot of services definitely don’t want bots. But they also want to take as much of your personal info as possible.
This is why Apple and Cloudflare have come up with Private Access Tokens and why Google is working on remote attestation in the browser. The traditional ways to ban bots just don’t work anymore.
it’s another way to violate your privacy.
It’s probably both if we’re being honest. A lot of services definitely don’t want bots. But they also want to take as much of your personal info as possible.
I’m of the belief that Google themselves runs (or more likely subcontracts) many of the bots that target websites not running captcha.
They don’t want bots because they can’t steal Personal Info from a bot