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Re:Google took three months to remove scam app that stole ov... by lucianbr on Monday August 19, 2024 @04:20AM (#41288995)
As a user, I've had to jump through a lot of hoops like captcha, credit card number, phone number check, dns domain check etc. I've been told these are to prevent scammers making 1000 accounts. Now they tell me "well we can't prevent scammers, because they make 1000 accounts".

I am beginning to think someone is not 100% truthful to me.

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Re:Google took three months to remove scam app that stole ov... by 0xdada on Monday August 19, 2024 @04:44AM (#41289131)
There is a cost to breaking captcha.
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Re:Google took three months to remove scam app that stole ov... by simion314 on Monday August 19, 2024 @07:45AM (#41290173)
Yeah, some companies are happy to let the bots thrive, I use reddit a lot and I would prefer to have 2 tiers of account,s, validated as real humans and not validated, then I would prefer if developers could do their job and put limits on non validated accounts with bot like activity. Bu they are happy with bots, I see people getting banned and getting back with a new account with same name just a small change there.

We had the case with Elon Musk complaining about bots and after the took over I read that he is fine with bots now,especially the ones that pay for the blue check mark.

I also wish police would do more in the cases of impersonation, where scammers impersonate people or institution, if this people are from a different country and that country does not collaborate then sanction them.

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