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Re:Living without the modern browser by yoz-y on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:32AM (#20401756)
> I wonder why we cannot come up with a web standard interface in a way the captchas could be offloaded to customizable and adaptable GUIS rendered by the browsing client.

What would prevent the client from not rendering anything and always replying "yes this is a human"?

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Re:Living without the modern browser by megous on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:37AM (#20401799)
That's not how any captchas work. It's more like a challenge/response mechanism, so there would have to be a standard for defining a challenge and accepting a response.

The client would take care of displaying the challenge, and taking and sending the repsonse.

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