Re:Google reCAPTCHA is a privacy nightmare
by contravariant on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @05:25PM
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At this point I'm pretty sure that any attempt to verify someone's "humanity" is bound to be a privacy nightmare. Worse it seems it will only become more so as we get better at making computers mimic human behaviour.
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Re:Google reCAPTCHA is a privacy nightmare
by throwaway243243 on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @05:41PM
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There's a site that got banned from all the captcha services and switched to a homegrown proof of work system. You can tie the PoW difficulty to the level of DDoS as well so the impact is minimal when not under attack.