Bots, so many bots

Re:Bots, so many bots by imiric on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:31AM (#41718427)

CAPTCHAs can protect public resources as well. But the main problem here is about preventing generated spam content, not scraping. This can be mitigated by placing CAPTCHAs only on pages with signup/login and comment forms.

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Re:Bots, so many bots by throwaway48476 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:35AM (#41718451)

>This can be mitigated by placing CAPTCHAs only on signup/login and comment forms.

If only...

Algorithmic turing test is a more interesting problem. https://xkcd.com/810/

Traditional captcha solving ability has already been surpassed by the bots which is now why there's so many new and creative different CAPTCHAs. Until someone trains a model to solve them that is.

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Re:Bots, so many bots by imiric on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @07:13AM (#41719302)

It's a never-ending arms race. CAPTCHA services are improving just as the attackers are. Just because they're not 100% accurate or effective doesn't mean they're worthless. They're just the first line of defense.

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Re:Bots, so many bots by pixl97 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @07:48AM (#41719530)

Just don't forget the scale doesn't stop at zero. They can be less than worthless and cost you actual humans visiting your site.

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