• JackbyDev@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    21 hours ago

    It’s funby that older captchas could be viewed as proof of work algorithms now because image recognition is so good. (From using captchas.)

    • Ferk@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      35 minutes ago

      That’s actually a good idea. A very simple “click the frog” captcha might be solvable by an AI but it would work as a way to make it more expensive for crawlers without wasting compute resources (energy!) on the user or slowing down old devices to a crawl. So in some ways it could be a better alternative to Anubis.

    • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      16 hours ago

      Interesting stance. I have bought many tens of thousand of captcha soves for legitimate reasons, and I have now completely lost faith in them