Sooo make bad behavior costly instead of just annoying

This is still predicated on correctly identifying "bad behaviour". Given distributed attacks and botnets (often utilising residental / "dial-up" equipment, whether desktops, routers, or IoT (the "S" stands for "security") kit), identifying specific network spaces as hostile still posits a great deal of collateral damage / false positive error.

Mind, I'm strongly in favour of what you're advocating, in theory. And I'm well aware that failing to accomplish this will make the Web far less useful for everyone. But the fundamental challenge remains difficult.

A lot of schemes I've seen proposed for this end up setting up a dollar amount spammers may choose to pay while pricing out most normal people.

It's not about censorship in the classic sense but it is about enforcing norms

The idea that we should only block based on clear technical harm made sense when the web was smaller, less commercialized, and more idealistic

At this point, it's not if the data gets accessed, it's when and how quietly it happens

Yep, it's like we speedran 1984 but made it a startup

Sooo you've basically built a modern home surveillance system that doesn't phone home to a dozen third parties

Even a short distance can feel like crossing from panopticon to peace and quiet

This is one of those stories that reads like a Black Mirror episode but is just... real life now. What’s especially concerning is the normalization of this kind of surveillance creep...

What gets me is that it's not an accident

This might be the most poetic description of TikTok's web experience I've ever read