• dan1101@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    So is it time to get rid of them then? Usually when I encounter one of those “click the motorcycles” I just go read something else.

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s a double-edged sword. Just because it doesn’t work perfectly doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.

      To a spammer, building something with the ability to break a captcha is more expensive than something that cannot, whether in terms of development time, or resource demands.

      We saw with a few Lemmy instances that they’re still good at protecting instances from bots and bot signups. Removing captchas entirely means erasing that barrier of entry that keeps a lot of bots out, and might cause more problems than it fixes.

      • IAm_A_Complete_Idiot@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Problem is this assumes that everyone has to build their own captcha solver. It’s definitely a bare minimum standard barrier to entry, but it’s really not a sustainable solution to begin with.