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You require something the bot won't have that a human would. Anybody may watch the demo screen of an arcade game for free, but you have to insert a quarter to
by stray 11mo ago
You require something the bot won't have that a human would.
Anybody may watch the demo screen of an arcade game for free, but you have to insert a quarter to play — and you can have even greater access with a key.
> and you’ve explicitly left a sign saying ‘you are not welcome here’
And the sign said
"Long-haired freaky people
Need not apply"
So I tucked my hair up under my hat
And I went in to ask him why
He said, "You look like a fine upstandin' young man
I think you'll do"
So I took off my hat and said, "Imagine that
Huh, me workin' for you"
- michaelt 11mo ago> You require something the bot won't have that a human would. Is this why the “open web” is showing me a captcha or two, along with their cookie banner and newsletter pop up these days?
- bigbuppo 11mo agoUp until people started making a big stink about CAPTCHAs being used for unpaid labor at scale, uh, well they had two purposes.