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The same way antibiotics make bacteria "stronger" - evading them is survival itself for some of the products and teams, so they will evade them. The arms race a
by aftbit 2y ago
The same way antibiotics make bacteria "stronger" - evading them is survival itself for some of the products and teams, so they will evade them. The arms race always continues. This is a powerful new weapon that will shut down a lot of bad actor volume but the bad actors abide.
- akoboldfrying 2y agoSure, the individual bots that adapt to solve the CAPTCHAs are stronger than before in the sense that there are pages they can crawl that their earlier versions could not. But the subset of pages that they can crawl hasn't increased in an absolute sense: For any page that they can crawl now, the old (CAPTCHA-free) version of that page could already be crawled by the old (non-CAPTCHA-solving) version of the bot. So in that sense, nothing is lost by adding CAPTCHAs to pages.