Comment on CAPTCHA successor Privacy Pass has no easy answers for online abuse
reddig33@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“The way Privacy Pass works is that one website hands out special tokens to people the site thinks are OK. Other sites can ask people to give them a token. The second site then knows that a visitor with a token is considered OK by the first site, but they don’t learn anything else”
Just sounds like an overcomplicated cookie that could be used to track people across websites.
SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 8 months ago
On top of that, I’m not really seeing a method of actually keeping the token out of a bot’s hands. It sounds like once the token is granted it’s carte blanche to scrape or commit fraud.
I don’t think there is really any easy solution for this problem either. It’s a never ending cat and mouse game trying to stop bots, similar to malware.