2026-09-06 13:29 UTC
@ami@mastodon.world I honestly understand the struggle of building content on a website. It's truly becoming a problem for those who work on that.
If bots played by the rule, it would be easy. But they cheat, and do it in ways that should be illegal.
Genuine question: granted data privacy was preserved and not sold to third parties, would you consider accessing content behind a username/password login to sites you often read content from? (e.g. news. I should make a poll about this one day)
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@ami@mastodon.world 2026-09-07 08:36
@en3py@onlyarts.social It's not about bots. It never was. Bots can offer a fake fingerprint, select images and continue. It's about identifying people, scraping their data mapping their movements across the internet and selling it. It's an ID check under another name. How about not harvesting data in the first place? A username/password combination is fine, but it always goes beyond that and that is the problem. Even if PII is not sold, it's at risk of breach. Just don't collect our data.