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Same, for same reason i refuse pay for services, in past paying for service would mean they wouldn't track you and sell your data, but thats not longer the case. Since that's additional profits for companies.

Luckily there's few exemptions services which im happily paying since its proven they dont collect your data so advertisers can't prey on you when you're at lowest.

Like did you know, just by obtaining credit card, your shopping history is sold? And you can't reject this, at least i haven't managed to do so. Yet in EU we're banning cash, where's option so i can buy my grocies without insurances knowing i bought candies for weekends so they'll hike insurance up.


Quite huge leap from predicting next tokens, this feels they're trying saying most crazy things for attention to remind they're AI and still a thing.

I think he means browser permissions, for example when browsers want notify or record your mic theres a permission check something similar for webgl.

Fun Fact: When Cookies were introduced into Netscape, you got a browser permission prompt. Then browser vendors set it to allow by default.

And then legislation required those consent boxes back, so everyone built their own, instead of demanding that the default should be changed back.


I'd simply check filling speed, even with browser's autocomplete humans are slow due needing click submit.

Then when it's "processing", do them in bulk and prioritize slower users. There's huge opportunity do bot checks after checkout without affecting user experience.

Also on product launches you could add unique field which requires user to input, for example that way bots can't prepare for launches.


Yeah, this doesn't even begin to cut it

huh. no wonder my password manager's auto submit triggers bot detection (it's a fairly popular one).

Sex also works very well, asking questions like following: male inserts penis into?

I think this method is more effective since there's not much room for imagination.

Side effect, this probably works as alternative for age verification aswell, but thats different topic.


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