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I wonder if they could just make a new browser standard which lets the server put the browser into a mode where the browser itself ensures there’s a live human interacting with the page/app, like using the webcam + OS facial recognition to ensure the server that it’s not a bot.

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This makes my skin crawl. I understand the intent, but this is morally wrong on many different levels.

I hate credential stuffing and malicious activity as much as the next person, but I would never sacrifice user privacy like that.

Also, you can spoof a webcam (but that's not the real problem).

It would be better than the unpaid labor we have to do for Captcha.

Captcha don't stop bots anymore, they only stop humans. I don't know why websites are still using those.

Unless it was closed source / DRM-y, the scraper developer would just compiler their browser from source and fake the detection code.

Scrapers that know what they're doing could implement this in a day. There are already easier ways to detect scrapers that don't know what they're doing.

And that's just the start of a long cat & mouse game that'd inevitably end up even more user-hostile and unaccessible than requiring a webcam to browse a website.

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