ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months agoCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.senews@lemmy.world
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minus-squarejarfil@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoYeah… only OCR and AI have advanced to the point where a spammer/bot can easily bypass them. 20+ years ago, Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA. Nowadays, we might have to go back to that… maybe by mining crypto as a proof of effort.
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Yeah… only OCR and AI have advanced to the point where a spammer/bot can easily bypass them.
20+ years ago, Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA. Nowadays, we might have to go back to that… maybe by mining crypto as a proof of effort.
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