Roguelazer

So this is just binary red/blue? Seems iffy given how diverse states are (eg there are about as many Republican voters in “blue” California or in “red” Florida because California is way larger). I wonder what this would look like at the county level…

Cloudflare actually does have a way to avoid seeing these, using a zero-knowledge proof backed by a hardware security module (they call it Cloudflare Private Access Tokens). As far as I know, Apple is still the only one who’s implemented it and it only works in Safari on iPhones, iPads, and M-series Macs. Maybe some day other vendors will add support too!

Of course, there are already scrapers that use arrays of real phones to do scraping/app automation, so widespread adoption of PATs would just push more traffic to be proxied through physical devices instead of headless browsers in AWS somewhere…

I’d go farther and suggest that the causation goes the other way. People are willing to use “AI” tools only because we’ve already shattered the notion of objective truth. OpenAI wouldn’t exist today without millions of people gleefully accepting the cry of “fake news” 9 years ago.

Artificial intelligence, perhaps humanity’s greatest monument to logical thinking

Sigh

This seems like a big usability cost. I wonder how long it’ll be before someone introduces an extension to re-add functional visited links (slowly and in JavaScript with some big unprotected IndexedDB instance)…