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The best way to catch a robot is just to slap a captcha there. Everything else is kind of useless and not effective.
by shp0ngle 4y ago
The best way to catch a robot is just to slap a captcha there. Everything else is kind of useless and not effective.
- luckylion 4y agoCaptchas also tell apart the average human visitor from the very committed human visitor that really, really, really needs to do whatever they can do on your website.
- bornfreddy 4y agoHa ha, good point. When presented with captcha I often decide I don't care that much and just close the page.
- Symbiote 4y agoI do the same, but sometimes I wish I could give better feedback. "Dear British Airways, I booked with SAS instead because you assumed a Linux user with Firefox was a bot." (Or maybe it was the other way round, I forgot.)
- lupire 4y agoThey are also very good at distinguishing paying Google users who get the fast-pass to Google captchas.
- luckylion 4y agoIs that a thing? What services do you need to buy to bypass recaptcha?
- sfe22 4y agoThat means way more captchas after this release, yay
- phiresky 4y agoGetting captchas solved reliably via a service costs around $1 per 1000 captchas so captchas are kinda useless as well if there's a tiny monetary incentive to get to whatever is behind the captcha.
- hackernewds 4y agoHow is that accomplished? Real humans?
- from 4y agohttps://2captcha.com https://2captcha.com Yes
- nine_k 4y agoReal humans, in places where $10 / day is reasonable money.
- dewey 4y agoDepends on the captcha but there's many popular services that you can plug into your code through APIs for bypassing captchas (https://www.2captcha.com https://www.2captcha.com, https://anti-captcha.com https://anti-captcha.com). I think the hardest one is probably the invisible reCaptcha Enterprise.
- Alifatisk 4y agoMhm https://www.deathbycaptcha.com/ https://www.deathbycaptcha.com/
- notatoad 4y agoi'm not sure what the current state of the art is, but my favourite way of solving captchas was the porn vendors who were monetizing their sites by presenting captchas in front of their videos, but the captchas were captured from legitimate sites. so every time a person solved a captcha to watch a video, it enabled a bot to access a captcha-protected resource.
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- gsich 4y agoWhy even bother?
- TAKEMYMONEY 4y ago> However, with recent progress in automatic and audio recognition, [detecting bots with captchas] has evolved ...and that's from 3 years ago https://antoinevastel.com/javascript/2020/02/09/detecting-web-bots.html https://antoinevastel.com/javascript/2020/02/09/detecting-we...
- XzAeRosho 4y agoHow do captchas work for blind people behind screen readers? I usually use a lot of keyboard strokes which seems to trigger a lot of captcha systems So far, the play audio option are kind of weird, specially if you're hard of hearing.
- kerpotgh 4y ago[flagged]
- Symbiote 4y agoEducate yourself before writing such selfish nonsense. https://www.sense.org.uk/about-us/statistics/deafblindness-statistics-in-the-uk/ https://www.sense.org.uk/about-us/statistics/deafblindness-s...
- yreg 4y agoThis is a terrible notion. > Accessibility is for everyone, including you, if you live long enough and the alternative is worse. So your choice is death or you are going to use accessibility features. – John Siracusa Also, making services accessible is not only the obviously right thing to do, but also the law here in EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Accessibility_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Accessibility_Act
- krono 4y agoOffering up some of our strength, ability, and comfort to help others who might be less fortunate or whose qualities lie elsewhere is what makes us human, and probably played a large part in getting us where were are today. You might be part of a very miniscule group yourself, if this is really what you believe. Our digital world will never be perfect, but allowing for everyone to at least be able to access and benefit from it is very much something we can and should do.
- Timon3 4y agoThis is a terrible take. The more technology is integrated into society, the more we need to offer different avenues to access it. Otherwise we'll be excluding the differently-abled from many parts of society, and at some point we really should be able to put that behind us...
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- yreg 4y agoAll captchas are soon going to be difficult to solve for humans and easy to solve for bots. Many already are. They also have terrible accessibility.