No thanks. I would prefer to just opt out.
It is also useful, to some extent, for bot farms, propaganda, opinion influencing and spycraft. But if you're a government controlling the "internet id" for your or other nations, then you can easily make affordances for whipping up a "valid" fake digital personage.
That it still exists is a technical and political challenge that will eventually be resolved. There's too much money and soft and hard power to be gained by getting rid of it.
For example, why would Apple not add liveness detection to its devices, which users already trust with their biometric data?
One could imagine a Web standard that specifies minimum capabilities for user agents, which could then be implemented in a variety of ways. Apple might use an upgraded FaceID, for example.
That would have the added benefit of being able to verify liveness anywhere, anytime, unlike the Orbs.
World feels like a ZIRP phenomenon.
That's what I always assumed too, that existing biometrics on mobile would be adequate. This World Coin Orbo bullshit doe not bring anything to the table except get sama one step closer to his wet dream fantasy of WorLD DomInaAtiOn.
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-ephemeral-ids-for-frau...
Speaking of which I suspect these sort of companies not World will win this race. It wont be a new product for them. It is just a new feature.
Huh? I've never needed any apps of those natures (or any apps at all) to get and keep jobs.