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How is it Google.com doesn’t require captchas to open the home page? Nor does apple.com or any number of massive-traffic sites. The idea that captcha is the bes
by briandear 7y ago
How is it Google.com doesn’t require captchas to open the home page? Nor does apple.com or any number of massive-traffic sites. The idea that captcha is the best, most effective, or most secure way to protect against DoS is just lazy.
- deftnerd 7y agoTo open the home page? True... But to view search results? I get captcha demands from google all the time depending on the search query (sometimes a query I make looks like something a bot might supply, like searching for a few IP addresses in a row) or if I'm using a VPN or Tor.
- mwyah 7y agoI get captchas on google.com all the time, especially if I make several complicated queries with operators in a short time span. And as this other guy says you are guaranteed to get a captcha from Tor