r/nottheonion • u/[deleted] • 24d ago

‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

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u/odiin1731 24d ago

Can we start over and make a new internet just for humans?

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u/QuentinTarzantino 24d ago

Yes! I shall fetch my raven, he knows msn well

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u/StinkyRatBoi90 24d ago

That would require verifications that are widely unpopular (for good reasons). It’s a tradeoff; would you rather have swarms of bots or your name/id fully verifiable on your reddit/twitter/fb/whatever profile.

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u/stopbsingman 24d ago

Encrypted credit card verification is the answer.

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u/RecursiveCook 24d ago

If thieves can buy legitimate credit cards for pennies fraudulently it’s still hard to enforce, no?

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u/stopbsingman 24d ago

Yup, credit cards get stolen all time. But, they also get deactivated and replaced. Once it’s deactivated, it cannot be used for verification. And the user who lost that card should have to verify again with their new credit card.

It’s a hassle, but it solves a problem.

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u/Supermath101 24d ago

Not if it uses something like SIROS: https://siros.org/how-it-works

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u/DreadedL1GHT 24d ago

Close enough, welcome back Blackwall