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You've made an assertion, not an argument. What does "anti-human" even mean? You're angry, sure, but you haven't expressed what exactly it is that you're angry
by quotemstr 7y ago
You've made an assertion, not an argument. What does "anti-human" even mean? You're angry, sure, but you haven't expressed what exactly it is that you're angry about. Nor have you proposed a realistic alternative way to distinguish bots from humans. This kind of histrionic, sweeping hot take is not productive.
- karatestomp 7y agoConsidering captchas operate by pushing the work of avoiding bots on your site (your problem) onto all the human users of your site, I think on the basis of that alone "anti-human" is warranted. Or "anti-social", if you prefer, which might better capture the fundamental problem with that aspect of it. That they proceed to perform textbook gaslighting on some of those people makes it even worse ("no, you didn't select all the buses in those images" but, of course, you did). Whether these things are necessary for it to operate is beside the point.
- icebraining 7y agoAre movie theaters anti-human because they push the work of avoiding freeloaders (their problem) onto all human users of the theater by making them carry and show tickets?