Re:Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
by bryanrasmussen on Thursday September 07, 2023 @12:45AM
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you're the first person to say anything about Captcha? The guy who started this argument needing some way to sort out human traffic operates a free service and is complaining the bot traffic makes it hard to offer a free service since bots cost money.
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Re:Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
by zb3 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:01AM
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By captcha I meant "telling computers and humans apart", not necessarily a particular implementation.
Why are you focusing on bot traffic? Doesn't human traffic also cost money? Who operates bots and why?
Re:Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
by marginalia_nu on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:20AM
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The problem is allocating resources fairly. A single human may operate tens of thousands of bots, and thus use disproportionate amount of resources, possibly all of them.