ooli2 ( ooli2@lemm.ee ) to TechnologyEnglish · 2 years 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-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1239
arrow-up1239external-linkCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comooli2 ( ooli2@lemm.ee ) to TechnologyEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square43linkfedilink
minus-squarejarfil ( jarfil@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years 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Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA.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.
minus-squarejagged_circle ( jagged_circle@feddit.nl ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoProof of work. See mCaptcha and Friendly Captcha.
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Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA.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.
Proof of work. See mCaptcha and Friendly Captcha.