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Congratulations, now it will get upgraded and become more work for humans to solve, increasing the burden on every non-malicious user.

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jeroenhd 2y ago
It's not like bots aren't already bypassing these CAPTCHAs. One author writing a blog post about how they accomplished what spammers and bots have been doing for ages isn't going to change anything. I just opened 4chan and after the initial Cloudflare bot detection I was told to register an email or wait 15 minutes before I was allowed to even obtain a CAPTCHA. Looks like they're already taking a layered approach to combat bots.
- blackjackfoe 2y ago
  (author here) Interestingly, the email registration/time-limit was added after I started this project, but before I told anyone about it.
sunaookami 2y ago
There are already loads of extensions and scripts out there that can solve these captchas with a great success rate.
- anigbrowl 2y ago
  Adding one more will degrade rather than improve that. Notwithstanding all the downvotes, the author's comment (just above) seems to endorse my argument. I dislike the captcha a lot, but I wish people would invest the same effort in attacking spam that they do in defeating anti-spam techniques. Spam and similar kinds of abuse are the bane of the internet but most people seem to shrug it off but declaring that a 'hard problem' so they can ignore it.
credus 2y ago
It only took about three days until the very first captcha solver was made back in 2021, and the dev's only response was to blanket ban the author's name sitewide until he became popular again for other reasons so they had to remove the filter. They know it's only a matter of time for someone to train a new model no matter how much they update the captcha so they don't really care much about it these days.

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Congratulations, now it will get upgraded and become more work for humans to solve, increasing the burden on every non-malicious user.

by anigbrowl 2y ago

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jeroenhd 2y ago
It's not like bots aren't already bypassing these CAPTCHAs. One author writing a blog post about how they accomplished what spammers and bots have been doing for ages isn't going to change anything. I just opened 4chan and after the initial Cloudflare bot detection I was told to register an email or wait 15 minutes before I was allowed to even obtain a CAPTCHA. Looks like they're already taking a layered approach to combat bots.
- blackjackfoe 2y ago
  (author here) Interestingly, the email registration/time-limit was added after I started this project, but before I told anyone about it.
sunaookami 2y ago
There are already loads of extensions and scripts out there that can solve these captchas with a great success rate.
- anigbrowl 2y ago
  Adding one more will degrade rather than improve that. Notwithstanding all the downvotes, the author's comment (just above) seems to endorse my argument. I dislike the captcha a lot, but I wish people would invest the same effort in attacking spam that they do in defeating anti-spam techniques. Spam and similar kinds of abuse are the bane of the internet but most people seem to shrug it off but declaring that a 'hard problem' so they can ignore it.
credus 2y ago
It only took about three days until the very first captcha solver was made back in 2021, and the dev's only response was to blanket ban the author's name sitewide until he became popular again for other reasons so they had to remove the filter. They know it's only a matter of time for someone to train a new model no matter how much they update the captcha so they don't really care much about it these days.