I prefer to stick with the original C version.

What you’re doing is filtering out bots that can’t be bothered to execute JavaScript. You don’t need to do a computational heavy PoW task to do that.

Most bots and scrapers from what I've seen already are using (headless) full browsers, and hence are executing javascript, so I think anything that slows them down or increases their cost can reduce the traffic they bring.

Canvas fingerprinting filters out bots better than PoW

Source? I strongly disagree, and it's not hard to change your browser characteristics to get a new canvas fingerprint every time, some browsers like firefox even have built-in options for it.

Proof of Work is a terrible solution

Hard disagree, because:

it assumes computational costs are significant expense for scrapers compared to proxy costs

The assumption is correct. PoW has been proven to significantly reduce bot traffic... meanwhile the mere existence of residential proxies has exploded the availability of easy bot campaigns.

Canvas fingerprinting would work.

Demonstrably false... people already do this with abysmal results. Need to visit a clownflare site? Endless captcha loops. No thanks

Definitely don't visit the toxic comment thread there... wow

I have nothing to hide

Ok, pull down your pants and hand me your unlocked phone.

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Right into the trash.

honestly LeCun should know better than to argue with a crazy person.

it doesn't matter how right he is, musk will turn everything around and have fun while doing it.

Only took 18 years since it was first reported.

still... 35 years? obviously there is more missing information.

Privacy measures currently being rolled out, such as end-to-end encryption, will stop tech companies from seeing any offending

Front doors also stop them from seeing things... is that next? What about clothes to conceal drugs?

That was probably me. You can check it here among other scary fingerprint stuff https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

The server is proprietary and last I checked you can't even turn off auto-updating or verify the binaries they push to you.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-dumps-ubuntu-snap/

In the Ubuntu 20.04 package base, the Chromium package is indeed empty and acting, without your consent, as a backdoor by connecting your computer to the Ubuntu Store. Applications in this store cannot be patched, or pinned. You can't audit them, hold them, modify them, or even point Snap to a different store. You've as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you.