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131 points timshell | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.425s | source
1. b0a04gl ◴[] No.44380326[source]
assume this is basically nosedive but for presence on the internet. except you don't rate anyone. your device, motion, latency, and scroll inertia get rated by some pipeline you’ll never see. and that’s what decides what version of the site you get.

> what if the turing test already runs silently across every site you open. just passive gating based on scroll cadence, mouse entropy, input lag without captcha or prompt

>what if you already failed one today. maybe your browser fingerprint was too rare, maybe your keyboard rhythm matched a bot cluster from six months ago. so the UI throttled by 200ms. or the request just 403'd.

> what if the system doesn't need to prove you're a bot. it just needs a small enough doubt to skip serving you the real content.

> what if human is no longer biological but statistical. a moving average of behavior trained on telemetry from five metro cities. everyone outside that gets misclassified.

>what if you'll never know. timeline loads emptier than someone else with explicit rejection to the content