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reCAPTCHA should be banned from existence as it is. It's the worst, most annoying form of human detection ever invented (yet?). I know lots of legit sites that
by IYasha 4y ago
reCAPTCHA should be banned from existence as it is. It's the worst, most annoying form of human detection ever invented (yet?). I know lots of legit sites that generate their own puzzles (usually just text or numbers) and don't even rely on JS. The only problem I see here is not everyone is capable of running their own CDN or DNS distribution (CloudFlare-like) and those providers mandate reCAPTCHA. :-| Otherwise, I don't see a valid reason for not running own image generator, which is not very cpu-expensive.
- samtho 4y agoI used to work in forum software development and thinking CAPTCHAs would slowly become obsolete as better detection methods are pioneered but instead CAPTCHAs just got more pervasive. From my experience, any time a major provider creates a generalized solution, it get attacked very heavily as the benefit to bypassing a general solution is more valuable than a one-off solution. Sufficiently popular services who have a one-off captcha will also be targeted. The only reason why those text-based ones work is because nobody has targeted those yet because the players are just too small.
- IYasha 4y agoBut Google had text-based captchas, Yandex still has. Aren't they big enough? ) The ReCAPTCHA was(is) huge a b2b collaboration in AI training (I've been warning about) for years. Now everyone can see clearly where it is going. So it's not that the image content is easily crackable. It's its purpose, IMHO.