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>>dagurp+(OP)
How exactly is WEI any worse than say a peep-hole on a door? At the end of the day bots are a huge problem and it's only getting worse. What's the alternative solution? You need to know who you're dealing with, both in life and clearly on the web.

I'm probably alone in this, but WEI is a good thing. Anyone who's run a site knows the headache around bots. Sites that don't care about bots can simply not use WEI. Of course, we know they will use it, because bots are a headache. Millions of engineer hours are wasted yearly on bot nonsense.

With the improvements in AI this was inevitable anyway. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. Reap what you sow and what not.

edit: removing ssl comparison since it's not really my point to begin with

>>endisn+bz1
Bots will get sophisticated.

This all seems to me that in a decade we'll be having the same discussion, with the same excuse, but eventually the proposal from big corporations will be to require plugging-in a government-issued ID card into a smartcard reader in order to access pre-approved websites with pre-approved client portals running in pre-approved machines.