CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

@ooli2@lemm.ee · 2 months ago

Pete Hahnloser · 2 months ago

I was fine with it when it was wavy text to digitise old works. This shit is just asinine and a time sink.

@jarfil@beehaw.org · edit-2 2 months ago

Yeah… only OCR and AI have advanced to the point where a spammer/bot can easily bypass them.

20+ years ago, Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA. Nowadays, we might have to go back to that… maybe by mining crypto as a proof of effort.

@jagged_circle@feddit.nl · 2 months ago

Proof of work. See mCaptcha and Friendly Captcha.