Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic

I don’t host things on the open internet anymore. I have a small set of services I host for a group of friends and family and I set them up with tailscale.

On the flip side, I’ve been constantly frustrated because every time I have an idea for some little quality of life tool that involves pulling data from a site I would normally have to browse to directly, I can’t do it because everything is captcha’d to all hell.

I think http/https is dead at this point.

http/https works as well as it ever did, it’s just that the overwhelming quantity of new sites have gummed it up for their own purposes.

Yeah, but it doesn’t really offer anything useful to fix this situation

My feeling is if we’re smart we’d probably layer it with some sort of DNS style distributed reputation system… If we’re not (which is what will inevitably happen) we’ll continue to consolidate the entire internet into a few huge walled gardens where information is heavily controlled, but you trade every shred of your privacy, anonymity, and dignity for convenience.