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Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by tiagorangel on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:34PM (#44139275)
scrapers usually don't render a webpage, else their scraping wouldn't be efficient at all.
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Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by hathawsh on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:40PM (#44139329)
Is that still true? There are so many SPAs out there now that if I were to create a web spider today, I would plan to just render a lot of the pages in a browser rather than fight the status quo. Efficiency wouldn't be my top concern.
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Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by boredhacker3 on Saturday May 31, 2025 @07:55AM (#44143645)
That’s bullshit
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