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Re:Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding chall... by dbavaria on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:16PM (#29997650)
If you could wrangle AI to solve this problem for you, I'm sure you wouldn't have any issues solving the captcha manually. Hence the CodeCaptcha still works!
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Re:Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding chall... by klyrs on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:01PM (#29998357)
No. If one person can wrangle AI to solve the problem, it's an easy step to solve it in a bot-farm. Hence, the CodeCaptcha is entirely broken.
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Re:Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding chall... by vorticalbox on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:07PM (#29999269)
> Sometimes you want to share a link (like job postings, google forms, your project, a secret sub-page etc) to programmers only.

It wasn't developed to keep AI and bots out but to only let in programmers

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Re:Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding chall... by abraham on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @05:43PM (#30001494)
> This service let's you do that while also preventing abuse and spam.

https://www.codecaptcha.io/

It's not just about programmers.

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Re:Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding chall... by penjelly on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:17PM (#30004546)
using copilot is not technical or difficult. paste the challenge in comments and hit tab or enter and its done (or not depending on copilot).
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