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I think it's the lesser evil in terms of privacy and self-hosting if you need anti-spam protection for something. In today's world spam/not protection is becomi
by spijdar 5y ago
I think it's the lesser evil in terms of privacy and self-hosting if you need anti-spam protection for something. In today's world spam/not protection is becoming more and more necessary, and even with JavaScript this is less intrusive than a service from Google or Cloudflare or something.
Suboptimal and an inefficient use of resources, yes, but possibly the only way to combat bots without privacy intrusive services. I'm open to hearing alternative ideas, though!
- ReactiveJelly 5y agoI agree. Bots will trend towards resembling real users exactly. All you can really do is make it expensive for a bot to spam requests. Everything else will be identical to humans one day, and in the meantime it's annoying to block legit Tor users or legit scraper bots.