chore: Add view.authenticate, deprecated in favor of view

[alexander-alderman-webb]

Description

Unlike view, view.authenticate is not documented in the devdocs.

The latter is set by the Python SDK in https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-python/blob/1ca032605a337eb1dee696b594c28d7620e93ddf/sentry_sdk/consts.py#L1364.

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• I have used the correct value for apply_scrubbing (i.e. manual or auto. Use never only for values that should never be scrubbed such as IDs)

If an attribute was deprecated:

• I've followed the policies described in CONTRIBUTING.md

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too quick

[elramen]

Does view by itself really cover authentication?

[alexander-alderman-webb]

@elramen The span name is "authenticate" in the case of Python, so I don't think we need the redundancy