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CAPTCHAs being american-centric, ableist, etc are all valid criticisms here, but I think people in tech fail to understand the value of them. Being "robot-frie
by adjkant 6y ago
CAPTCHAs being american-centric, ableist, etc are all valid criticisms here, but I think people in tech fail to understand the value of them.
Being "robot-friendly" still doesn't mean it's a walk in the park, and it's a hurdle that spammers will have to account for. If your site is a low value target or the spamming in general is low-value, it's often effective. Running any sort of small time open to the internet blog or forum will make the value of CAPTCHAs abundantly clear. The issue here is being inclusive to people, not making them "work" against robots.
- thequux 6y agoIn those situations, captchas don't offer any improvement over a text field that always asks you to put a 3 in it. It's just different enough from other systems that it requires custom programming, and that's just not worth it for most small websites.
- les_diabolique 6y agoIf I'm specifically targeting that website, what's stopping me from writing a bot that would simply enter 3 all the time?
- josephcsible 6y agoIf a website is low-value, you won't be specifically targeting it in particular.