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The computers don’t need you to do captchas anymore. The captchas are just solved problems being used to slow down bots and spammers these days.
by aetch 3y ago
The computers don’t need you to do captchas anymore. The captchas are just solved problems being used to slow down bots and spammers these days.
- al_borland 3y agoAre they though? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37160744 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37160744
- roenxi 3y agoYou're linking to discussion of an article that explains bots are solving CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA faster and more accurately than humans. I don't understand what you are trying to say, but I don't think it aligns with the evidence you're providing.
- al_borland 3y agoYou mentioned… >The captchas are just solved problems being used to slow down bots and spammers these days. If bot are solving these problems faster and more accurately than humans, it’s not really slowing down the bots and spammers anymore. That is also a solved problem.
- roenxi 3y agoWell, if it is solving CAPTCHA better and faster than humans, that is a useful signal. Maybe they monitor how often an IP address figures something out and if it gets too many right they +1 a suspicion counter. I dunno. Implementing the CAPTCHA solving bot also takes time and expertise; it'd filter out some low-ability spammers.