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This isn't about "making a mistake on the captcha", this is about charging them one pence for every attempt and just not having a captcha. It's an entirely dif
by mapt 2y ago
This isn't about "making a mistake on the captcha", this is about charging them one pence for every attempt and just not having a captcha.
It's an entirely different sort of system, and it would require a cordoned off section of the Internet to implement it top-down, but it's technically viable.
The defining insight here is how many orders of magnitude difference there is between the "That price is negligible" threshold for a human being, and the "That price is negligible" threshold for an automated system. Sure there are adoption issues, but for all applications where there are several orders of magnitude difference, such a system makes some degree of sense.
- theamk 2y agoDon't think it's going to work, except in the smallest forums? According to a random page on internet [0], companies pay in $2-$6 range per 1000 ad impressions. If one pays $0.01 to bypass captcha and just 10 people see the resulting spam post, that's already $1 per 1000 views - much less than facebook charges. This becomes even more lucrative if the ads are expensive or there will be more than 10 people looking at the ad. It looks you'll want much higher costs than that, which will make it "too much" for other users. [0] https://spideraf.com/learning-hub/what-is-the-average-cost-per-impression https://spideraf.com/learning-hub/what-is-the-average-cost-p...