The Internet is Being Rotted from Within

As I mentioned in another post, my 3 months trial of social media is currently at an end as I cannot get on X because I cannot verify I am a human. I tick the box, then get a QR code which I have to scan with my phone, but as I do not use my phone for anything outside phone calls, text messages and banking, this is the point that I say fuck you X. The level of friction to do anything recently been getting noticeably higher. I am happy to tick a box to prove I am human, and a little less happy to tell you which of your stupid pictures have motorbikes or traffic lights in them. I am extremely unhappy when you assume you can now start doing this shit on my phone. This means if your site is not 1000% where I want to go I will not be visiting it if you push me too far. And so we come to the perceived culprit of all the new checks, bots, probably powered by AI agents. Agents which can now presumably tick boxes, and tell you which capture pictures have traffic lights in them; And, if I was a…