We need shittier solutions. That way we never feel the pain of once having a good solution to a problem and then losing it.
The solution is to make the internet itself resilient to this mode of attack. Not to create a single company big enough to gatekeep and spy on the whole network and to just trust them to act virtuously forever.
Erm, hello, hCAPTCHA[1] ?!?
Can't remember when they started, but I certainly jumped ship to hCAPTCHA what is now many years ago now.
Privacy protection is stated there on their homepage as their key differentiator with ReCAPTCHA.
But yes, no one is perfect, but at end of the day i really prefer your business model that does not need break users privacy.
On the one hand, I did post a reactionary hot take yesterday in response to the "pardon me, Cisco" ad that you posted [1]. I'm sorry for that; I should have kept that immediate reaction to myself. Still, I'm apprehensive about increasing the power of one of a handful of big players by routing my company's web traffic through Cloudflare, let alone running applications themselves on the Cloudflare platform, though Workers is certainly interesting technology. And I'm certainly not going to route all of my Internet traffic through Warp, or even use 1.1.1.1 for DNS.
But in the specific case of Turnstile, it is clearly now the least bad option. So I will be happy to use it when something like a CAPTCHA is needed.
In all seriousness, I don’t see Cloudflare centralizing the web. I see them decentralizing it by empowering smaller folks with easier tools for scale.
It’s a stretch of argument / not perfect —- but I am glad the competition exists. It makes sense for Cloudflare to be big and privacy focused when competing in the big net real estate space of the modern web.