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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by adjkant on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:31AM (#25227378)
CAPTCHAs being american-centric, ableist, etc are all valid criticisms here, but I think people in tech fail to understand the value of them.

Being "robot-friendly" still doesn't mean it's a walk in the park, and it's a hurdle that spammers will have to account for. If your site is a low value target or the spamming in general is low-value, it's often effective. Running any sort of small time open to the internet blog or forum will make the value of CAPTCHAs abundantly clear. The issue here is being inclusive to people, not making them "work" against robots.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by thequux on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:30AM (#25227787)
In those situations, captchas don't offer any improvement over a text field that always asks you to put a 3 in it. It's just different enough from other systems that it requires custom programming, and that's just not worth it for most small websites.
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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by les_diabolique on Friday November 27, 2020 @11:51AM (#25230265)
If I'm specifically targeting that website, what's stopping me from writing a bot that would simply enter 3 all the time?
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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by josephcsible on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:50PM (#25232879)
If a website is low-value, you won't be specifically targeting it in particular.
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