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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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