A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations in the background

Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by m712 on Sunday September 08, 2019 @01:31PM (#20911942)

On an Intel Celeron B820 @ 1.70Ghz laptop, it took more than 40 seconds to complete and consumed 1% of battery in the meantime. The "complex equations" you are doing will not work on low-horsepower devices like phones or low-to-medium level laptops.

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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by wutbrodo on Sunday September 08, 2019 @03:41PM (#20912886)

> will not work on low-horsepower devices like phones or low-to-medium level laptops.

Just to calibrate a little, I did it on my (midtier, six month old) phone just now and it took three to four seconds.

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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by kps on Sunday September 08, 2019 @03:04PM (#20912646)

I tried out of curiosity, and it doesn't even load on one of my machines (in two different browsers). And no, I am not inclined to debug their product for free.

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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by jtbayly on Sunday September 08, 2019 @01:48PM (#20912045)

Interesting. I forgot how fast the newest iPhones are. 7 seconds on the Xs.

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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by cosmojg on Sunday September 08, 2019 @02:33PM (#20912401)

Just performed several trials on my OnePlus 6T. It took 4, 14, 1, 1, 5, 3, 8, 4, 19, and 24 seconds for an average of 8.3 seconds over 10 trials. That's more than comparable to the time it takes me to solve one of Google's monstrosities.

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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by saagarjha on Sunday September 08, 2019 @03:09PM (#20912672)

It's not even the newest iPhones: my iPhone SE beat an Intel Celeron N3060 @ 1.60 GHz almost every time.

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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by 29083011397778 on Monday September 09, 2019 @01:51AM (#20915521)

Tried on my Blackberry Keyone just to see, and it was well under a minute. Timed it after refreshing the page, and even my 2017 mid-range is under 10 seconds.

Granted, Google Apps are disabled, so it may have been one less thing eating up CPU cycles in the background that made others so slow?

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