Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
by r32a_ on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:03AM
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Google's entire business model is leveraging of fractions of a cent on a mass scale
Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
by hombre_fatal on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:41AM
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I assume you're talking about ads. But you're bidding at least cents on Adwords and making at least cents on Adsense. In Adsense's hey day, I had relatively low-volume sites making over $1 per click and paying my rent in lucrative niches.
I didn't find any pricing examples on hcaptcha's website. For all I know, people are bidding 5 cents per image.
Anyways, I definitely want to see more serious contenders in the captcha space so that we all aren't contributing to Google's middle-manning of the entire internet, and I'd like to try hcaptcha even out of curiosity.
Yes, mainly because we're talking about fractions of cents. Also, it's not for free; the website and its users get a good anti-abuse measure in return.
There's a big difference between something that cannot make money and something that makes pennies for the site. But, to be fair, 99.9% of users aren't going to notice the difference in captcha branding either way unlike my example of a banner ad on a retail site.
My main reaction is that the UX incentive to minimize user exposure to captchas seems to work against the primary pull of using hcaptcha in the first place.
Though one site I can think of that has a captcha behind every action (every post) is 4chan. Maybe you can get them on hcaptcha one day. It would at least help you test your tagging system against vandalism. :)