A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
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Is that good?
  • jarfil@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Yeah… only OCR and AI have advanced to the point where a spammer/bot can easily bypass them.

    20+ years ago, Microsoft proposed a Penny Black project, which was superseded by reCAPTCHA. Nowadays, we might have to go back to that… maybe by mining crypto as a proof of effort.