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This sounds kinda nitpicky but I think it's an important distinction. We're talking about the web, not the internet, right? Or is hcaptcha also used for iOS app

This sounds kinda nitpicky but I think it's an important distinction. We're talking about the web, not the internet, right? Or is hcaptcha also used for iOS apps, Android apps, etc.?

fab1an 6y ago
hCaptcha runs anywhere, even works on Telegram groups: https://github.com/hCaptcha/telegram-bot https://github.com/hCaptcha/telegram-bot
paxys 6y ago
That distinction is already blurred beyond recognition. There's nothing that makes a phone app more or less "web" than a SPA, for example.
- kaycebasques 6y ago
  The distinction between iOS apps built in Swift and distributed on App Store (for example) and a website built in JS/HTML/CSS and distributed via the web's decentralized architecture is pretty clear IMO. Case in point I don't see hCaptcha/reCAPTCHA on iOS apps as frequently as I do on websites. The way I was taught in my elementary networking class was: the web is an application of the internet. The internet as a concept is much broader than the web.
  - paxys 6y ago
    "The web's decentralized architecture" isn't a thing. There are clients and servers and communication protocols, that's it. There are plenty of web apps distributed from custom stores. And the web doesn't mandate using JS/HTML/CSS. A client (whether browser, CLI, phone app, bot or anything else) making resource requests identified by a URL to an HTTP server is as "web" as it gets. The reason you see fewer capchas on iOS and Android is that it is a lot harder to automate them for spam, that's all.
    - kaycebasques 6y ago
      I mean Wikipedia also phrases the web as a subset of the internet, but as I worried, I think we're just starting to debate semantics. Using "web" interchangeably with "internet" is just confusing to me and that's what I was trying to clarify. I did learn however that Telegram's usage of hCaptcha suggests that this is a technology bigger than what we usually call the web. > The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. Edit: but to be fair I totally brought this semantics debate upon myself by raising the question of the difference between the web and the internet. Not sure why I took on a whiny tone about that, haha

This sounds kinda nitpicky but I think it's an important distinction. We're talking about the web, not the internet, right? Or is hcaptcha also used for iOS apps, Android apps, etc.?

fab1an 6y ago

hCaptcha runs anywhere, even works on Telegram groups: https://github.com/hCaptcha/telegram-bot https://github.com/hCaptcha/telegram-bot

paxys 6y ago

That distinction is already blurred beyond recognition. There's nothing that makes a phone app more or less "web" than a SPA, for example.

kaycebasques 6y ago
The distinction between iOS apps built in Swift and distributed on App Store (for example) and a website built in JS/HTML/CSS and distributed via the web's decentralized architecture is pretty clear IMO. Case in point I don't see hCaptcha/reCAPTCHA on iOS apps as frequently as I do on websites. The way I was taught in my elementary networking class was: the web is an application of the internet. The internet as a concept is much broader than the web.
- paxys 6y ago
  "The web's decentralized architecture" isn't a thing. There are clients and servers and communication protocols, that's it. There are plenty of web apps distributed from custom stores. And the web doesn't mandate using JS/HTML/CSS. A client (whether browser, CLI, phone app, bot or anything else) making resource requests identified by a URL to an HTTP server is as "web" as it gets. The reason you see fewer capchas on iOS and Android is that it is a lot harder to automate them for spam, that's all.
  - kaycebasques 6y ago
    I mean Wikipedia also phrases the web as a subset of the internet, but as I worried, I think we're just starting to debate semantics. Using "web" interchangeably with "internet" is just confusing to me and that's what I was trying to clarify. I did learn however that Telegram's usage of hCaptcha suggests that this is a technology bigger than what we usually call the web. > The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. Edit: but to be fair I totally brought this semantics debate upon myself by raising the question of the difference between the web and the internet. Not sure why I took on a whiny tone about that, haha