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Sounds similar, but the problem is exactly that I don’t think there’s any way to disconnect such a session, nor to even see that it is connected to my computer in the first place. There’s a small notice when initially starting it on the mac, that’s it.

If I get locked out or get served captcha after captcha on Firefox (with or without my ad blocker and extended tracking prevention disabled) but everything works flawlessly on Chrome there's really only one conclusion I can draw.

Just using Firefox is enough these days. I can't even book a train ticket on Firefox anymore. "Your behavior is similar to a bot. Try to log in to your account or use a different browser." My >10y tenured account with dozens of prior undisputed orders apparently does not matter as much as my user agent.

Doesn't work that well if you actually need to use whatever site is protected by Cloudflare. There often is a choice, but not always, these days.

It really depends on your IP, in my experience. I've had to provide tenured browser cookies for some sites quite a few times already.

Not sure that actually follows. I could say "the open web can't possibly win, Cloudflare just has too many resources compared to any individual site" just as well, and it would sound similarly reasonable but is probably an equally poor prediction.

I don't think there's a way to avoid this game at this point, so I'd rather fast forward and see what lies at the end, given how painful the way there already is.

I'll take the constant, predictable pain of some equilibrium over constantly shifting pain any day. For example, I know which websites just don't support Firefox for web standards compatibility reasons and can use alternatives, but I don't know when Cloudflare will next decide to lock me out of half of the web for my crimes of using a free browser.

That's certainly one reason, but frontier LLMs are also really good at finding existing vulnerabilities in completely human-authored codebases.

It’s not always a choice. If value has been transferred onwards (ultimately in the form of e.g. cash withdrawn or something equally hard to trace, like physical goods handed over to a buyer), simply “undoing all transactions in a database” isn’t without victims either.

Whether undoing transactions or not is an option strongly depends on how fast value is allowed to move. Sometimes being slow is a feature as much as it is a bug.

The reason subresource/web application integrity is not more commonly used is that there is no plan to actually do anything with it.

How are you going to verify your thousands of dependencies, some of them obfuscated/closed source? And if you can’t, what does integrity buy you?

Deepfakes and slop, essentially, and I still expect more parts of that prediction (that I don’t want to spoil) to become true.

Sure, but not automatically generated text or image content.

> Binance isn’t headquartered anywhere.

Don’t fall for their propaganda. Everybody is ultimately headquartered somewhere.

> giving the individual complete control of their financial resources

This seems like a definitionally unachievable goal. How can you have finance without others that you ultimately need to trust, if only to be stable enough in their wants and needs to want to trade with you?