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Re:CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading... by LightHugger on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @03:03AM (#43023004)
Serverside of course, but i would think the loading bar can be per connection rather than be per account right? Like a connection is attempted, starting the loading bar, and then 5s later you only allow that connection to continue the load? I do non-web dev stuff so maybe i'm missing something but it sounds like should be easy enough.
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Re:CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading... by mike_hearn on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:12AM (#43023809)
What stops you dropping the connection the moment you realize you're being loading barred.
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Re:CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading... by LightHugger on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:41PM (#43028969)
Presumably the point is that the user (or bot) wants to access the content, a connection would have to complete the load successfully to do what they came for. if they just drop it instantly then that's a bot turned away.
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Re:CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading... by mike_hearn on Friday February 14, 2025 @03:52AM (#43046294)
But you don't want to throw an arbitrary five second delay into login for every good user, they hate that sort of thing whereas the bot doesn't care.
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