Recaptcha is only used on 25% of top 10k websites? Anyway, I’m very angry about the way the web is made to work, especially identity, and usually I would spew a bunch of anger and swear words describing how stupid it is and all the people who blindly support it but I don’t want this to be censored so instead I will behave myself!
This is hilarious because this is the worst, most needlessly complicated solution to identity that one could ever imagine. It’s funny how it apparently takes a PhD to tell you that google isn’t analyzing your behavior on the website. They track you across every webpage you visit that has their code running. And it goes way beyond cookies. Look at the filter bubble research that duck duck go did — they have an idea of who you are regardless of what cookies you have or whatever else. And this data has informed captcha results before this latest iteration. It’s complicated, needless and also gives a bunch of sensitive data to a private company that shouldn’t have it. Nobody cares.
Identity services are the alternative to this. Have a company that has multiple ways of verifying identity including operating physical locations where you can show up and prove beyond any doubt that you are person X. Once identity is established, something like a yubikey or whatever can be used to authenticate various things like making an account on a website or what have you. If you get hacked then you can rectify by engaging in one of the identity verifications tasks, up to and including coming in person and being biometrically verified with absolute certainty. The company would make money with modest fees to users and charging websites to use their service to verify their users.
It should be that the government has all this in place, and you can use secondary identification numbers for websites. But I’m the United States identity is broken, based on a shitty Ssn where if it’s stolen you are basically fucked.