Escalating CAPTCHA, 2FA, and Device-Attestation Friction Makes Ordinary Web Use Feel Adversarial
A widely-upvoted complaint describes a stacking pattern across the web: near-unsolvable CAPTCHAs, mandatory 2FA with unreliable codes, phone-number requirements to create accounts, and requests to rotate one's head or grant microphone access just to prove humanity. Replies corroborate that anti-bot verification increasingly assumes every visitor is a bot by default, burdening legitimate users with growing verification overhead.
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