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One thing I couldn't find in the post is how big the estimated error rate is. Particularly false positives or negatives. Probably impossible to track by definit
by shdon 5y ago
One thing I couldn't find in the post is how big the estimated error rate is. Particularly false positives or negatives. Probably impossible to track by definition, but I'm not so much interested in reducing the number of captchas as I am in ensuring bad actors are kept out, even if it has the unfortunate side effect of inconveniencing legitimate traffic.
- hedora 5y agoCaptchas don't keep bad actors out though. There are plenty of Mechanical Turk style services that will solve captchas for close to free. I might not want to pay slave wages to people to mindlessly click buttons, but I'm not a bad actor. (Also, these services have serious security / usability issues for pretty much everyone except bad actors.) The captcha war was lost long ago.