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Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Trust me, my team and I often feel at odds with the part that infringes on privacy. As someone that enjoys and wants more privacy, I wish there were other solutions that didn't create a type of dragnet. If it assuages some of your fears, I've never heard of the fingerprinting being sold or used outside of detections.

ALTCHA uses a proof-of-work mechanism to protect your website, apps, APIs, and online services from spam and unwanted content.

Unlike other solutions, ALTCHA’s Captcha alternative is free, open-source and self-hosted, does not use cookies nor fingerprinting, does not track users.

Emphasis are mine. I honestly do not know how this statement is possible. Captcha-less, proof-of-work solutions have to fingerprint on some level. It's essentially having the browser prove it is what it claims to be. I get what they're trying to say but it's marketing. That said, I don't know everything and maybe they have some method I'm not aware of. Grains of salt all around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I definitely understand. That's good to hear there hasn't been a direct pipeline to selling fingerprint data established yet.

Thanks for checking it out. Hopefully there is a best of both worlds in what they are advertising but I get that technology isn't magic either.