Ever more websites are using #Cloudflare to block #AI scrapers. Cloudflare is still a man-in-the-middle #MITM attack on the web, but I do think people should have the ability to block the AI crap. So I now have some sympathies for using Cloudflare. What if we had real gov #eID that could be used for captchas? This requires privacy-respecting services that only see the data they need, e.g. "are you a human with an eID? yes/no". There are concerns with eIDs but in implementations not the core idea
@eighthave but a client side scrupt could automate the interaction witha real id card then automate scrappung using this id.
And no doubt people will rent the use of their id by scrapping companies...
@tuxicoman sounds like a well known problem with known solutions, for example, APIs with rate limiting, tokens, etc.
@eighthave you mean throttling usage per "detected" same request origin (same id here)?
@tuxicoman smartcards are slow anyway, so rate limiting is built in, that would be the rock solid version. The app version could just need to implement something like that but people could hack the app.
I'm sure the renting of eID would also be regulated or even just banned, not just a free for all. For example, you're not allowed to "loan" your physical ID to your cousin who looks like you. That would be fraud.
