One of the four authors of the proposal is on my mastodon instance. How ironic (and kinda embarrassing).
That was the plan all along.
I'm ok with sites using WEI as an alternative to captcha, but if any site tries to fail closed on WEI I will be first in line to join the DDOS.
To be clear - even in that world, not having WEI would make you much more suspicious than a 'normal' user, so you're effectively describing every Firefox and/or Linux (etc) user seeing captchas all the damn time. If Cloudflare used this as a signal, that'd be a captcha for 20% of websites.
Try using Tor today and see how inconvenient the web becomes. Just 'not blocked' doesn't mean you get a reasonable experience.
The only healthy route for the web is fair access and free competition between clients. WEI sets that on fire.
Hint: :q!
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