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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by remram on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:01PM (#24924608)
> up to 20 seconds on old smartphones

That sounds like a very battery-unfriendly idea.

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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by protoduction on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:25PM (#24924815)
It's not perfect, but maxing a single core for 20 seconds on an older smartphone is a necessary evil for this kind of captcha.

The alternative: loading a third party script and multiple images (~2MB) to label for ReCAPTCHA and spending time performing the task also takes some battery (and mental) power.

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