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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by shadowgovt on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @08:21PM (#37057237)
ReCAPTCHA was designed with this in mind: given that we had the need to distinguish humans from bots, it presents problems that are hard for bots to solve, where the resulting output is valuable. So the time consumed isn't wasted.
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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by wrkta on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:09AM (#37059557)
It's wasted from the perspective of the end user.
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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by shadowgovt on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:28PM (#37069235)
Not when the end user turns around and uses Google Maps which is now populated with higher quality fine feature information due to the training of the machine learning system on what traffic controls look like.
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Re:Blocked by Cloudflare by denton-scratch on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:37AM (#37062456)
Valuable to whom?
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