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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by capableweb on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:55AM (#25220016)
I just tried loading the demo of Friendly Captcha in 8 browser windows, and click the verify button, refresh the window and on repeat for about 3 minutes. Not once did it tell me that I'm a robot so seems your alternative fails the most basic of captcha functionality, limiting people/machines to spam functionality that the website owner wants to be limited.

Maybe not everyone but a lot of people use captcha services to prevent automation from being used to extract/insert data. I know as a developer that there is always a chance of bypassing this, even with Google's reCaptcha, but your service seems to make this trivial, so many won't even go beyond your demo.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by theon144 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:29AM (#25220265)
>Not once did it tell me that I'm a robot

Right, unfortunately you've completely misunderstood the point of Friendly Captcha, a question which is answered right there on its main page.

>>How does FriendlyCaptcha tell apart bots from humans?

>>It doesn't, FriendlyCaptcha adds a small cost and complexity for spammers that becomes large at scale.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by capableweb on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:16AM (#25220685)
Right, I guess it's time for you to upgrade the UI of your tool then, as when it's inactive it says "Anti-Robot Verification" and once the challenge is done it says "I'm not a robot", while in reality, none of those things are true, as you said yourself.

You might also want to rebrand to use a different word than "Captcha" as you're not actually telling robots and humans apart, you're simply adding PoW to an action, nevermind if they are robots or humans.

So instead of blaming users for misunderstanding your message, maybe try working on making your messaging a bit clearer so for the people who know what captcha is, don't get confused by your own definition of it.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by matteocontrini on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:43PM (#25222060)
Actually the user you're replying to is not the author of the service, from what I can tell.
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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by capableweb on Thursday November 26, 2020 @01:23PM (#25222356)
Oh dear, it seems so. Thanks for letting me know, I guess I just assumed it would be the creator of the service who would defend it, not someone else, but seems you're right.
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