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If they become aware of it and actually think it’s worthwhile. Malicious bots work by scaling, and implementing special cases for every random web site doesn’t

If they become aware of it and actually think it’s worthwhile. Malicious bots work by scaling, and implementing special cases for every random web site doesn’t scale. And it’s likely they never even notice.

mattnewton 1y ago
If this kind of security by not being noticed is the plan, why not just have a trivial (but unique) captcha that asks the user to click a button with no battery wasting computation?
- account42 1y ago
  Because you can't sell that as a commercial solution that the open source software ecosystem provides free advertising to.
- wat10000 1y ago
  That works too, but not quite as well so it decreases the unwanted activity somewhat less.