Honeypot is feeling extra sticky today, bros. Anyone else remember when captchas were added as a "temporary measure" to curb spam on the larger boards? This shit is going site wide, or at least larger-board-wide sooner or later, I'm positive. Is this really how 4chan dies?
It's been dead for well over a decade, sonny jim. Right now it's just vermin picking at the bones.
I guess the most horrifying thought is to imagine the users putting up with it, rather than dispersing.
To where?
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Zoomers and boomers are gonna put the same emails they use for work/socials and its gonna leak
The so called “worst website on the Internet” now has the same policies as shit like Xitter.
As if 4cuck couldn't get any worse, next thing you know you will need a fucking account to post. Might as well introduce upvotes and awards while we are at it.
Honestly, I wish there was an alternative to 4chan. Warts and all, I like using it.
There is, but I'm not telling anyone. I only still use 4chan for a handful of threads that aren't replicated elsewhere.
So they remove the IP counter, which previously served as a tool to spot shills and samefags, only to implement another verification system because the shills are that prevalent. And everyone will just have to take the mods' word for it because no IP counter means they can't see it for themselves.
All trying to be the next Doge. There will never be another Doge.
To some alt-chan that will inevitably be spammed with CP and banned from every host on the internet. Or if the host is resilient enough, the FBI will tell one of the edgy kids they're monitoring about the place so when they go for the high score at the school/synagogue/wherever the media can run all sorts of hitpieces about how the site is pure evil, Cloudflare and everyone else will "reluctantly" ban it, and some NGOs will fund a lawsuit against the site in some shithole like New York City which will win a multi-billion dollar judgement and force it to close down.
I looked that up but I couldn't find a website under that name.
5ch deals with it by banning VPNs and gaijin from the site. Due to spam attacks gaijin are blocked from even posting to the international boards. Of course there are human moderators that clean up spam too.
Probably the most realistic take. It's an election year and they want to make money by selling API access and registered emails to government agencies and politicians.
I suspect the FTC is involved. They've been cracking down on crypto recently, and probably aren't thrilled that perhaps the biggest crypto forum with shills that often promote shit like pump and dumps and other FTC trade violations. I bet 4chan was going to be sued, but decided to settle by requiring email registration for /biz/ so the FTC can build a better case for fraudsters and the IRS can get their taxes.
