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> I hope we can end the CAPTCHA experiment soon. It didn't work. Well it sort of worked before we got modern AI image recognizers, but even then they had to co
by dreamcompiler 2y ago
> I hope we can end the CAPTCHA experiment soon. It didn't work.
Well it sort of worked before we got modern AI image recognizers, but even then they had to continue making the challenges harder to keep up with the recognizer software.
Now the damn things have crossed over into the domain of "easier for a machine to solve than a human" so they're worthless for their original purpose.
- tombert 2y agoDefine modern? I worked adjacent to the web-scraping tech at Jet.com and they managed to beat a lot of the CAPTCHAs even in 2016.
- jchw 2y agoYeah but filtering out mindless bots is even easier than loading a bloated mess of JS: a simple form question that you believe 100% of the valid users will be able to answer should be good enough to stop almost all of those low-level bots. I use that approach all the time. Some day this luck will run out, but for larger entities that experience targeted malicious traffic it's never really been a viable approach.