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haburka ◴[] No.36882152[source]
Very controversial take but I think this benefits the vast majority of users by allowing them to bypass captchas. I’m assuming that people would use this API to avoid showing real users captchas, not completely prevent them from browsing the web.

Unfortunately people who have rooted phones, who use nonstandard browsers are not more than 1% of users. It’s important that they exist, but the web is a massive platform. We can not let a tyranny of 1% of users steer the ship. The vast majority of users would benefit from this, if it really works.

However i could see that this tool would be abused by certain websites and prevent users from logging in if on a non standard browser, especially banks. Unfortunate but overall beneficial to the masses.

Edit: Apparently 5% of the time it intentionally omits the result so it can’t be used to block clients. Very reasonable solution.

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1. jdrek1 ◴[] No.36882408[source]
> We can not let a tyranny of 1% of users steer the ship.

Normally I'd agree with you on that the tyranny of the minority is a bad thing, but sometimes the minority actually has a point and this is one of the cases where the minority is _objectively_ correct and letting the majority decide would end up in a complete dystopia. Democracy only works if everyone is informed (and able to think logically/critically, not influenced (either by force or by salary), etc.) and in this case the 99% simply do not have any clue on the effects of this being implemented (nor do they care). This entire proposal is pure orwellian shit.