CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by viraptor on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:21AM (#25228092)

> Why would indian carriers absorb the cost of an international SMS

Because SMS pricing is a scam and in practice is a rounding error to handle all of those activation messages. Both countries should just exclude that number from billing.

This is similar to how European carriers suddenly started competing on free international calls/data once EU enforced better rules. We've been told for decades it's really expensive, but now? Nah.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by webmobdev on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:31AM (#25228165)

> Because SMS pricing is a scam

Everything corporates do can be called a "scam". To me, it is a "scam" that a trillion dollar company like Apple avoids putting up activation servers in India because it is more profitable to not do so and just make the indian user pay an international SMS everytime.

It is also a "scam" to me that Apple insists that I can only install everything from the App Store, where as apps would actually be cheaper for all of us if Apple didn't take a cut from the developer. (And I can go on ... but we have to live with the reality of the world don't we - Apple isn't going to give up control over their App Store just as carriers will keep trying to monetise on SMS or RCS.)

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by KMnO4 on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:37AM (#25228198)

Practically, an SMS message uses less data than a “missed call”. I don’t think anyone has ever paid for not picking up a ringing phone.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by viraptor on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:35AM (#25228190)

Both can be true.

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