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Web Devs: is there a phone-number-less AUTH that still prevents bots? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I make websites
If someone is banned twice (two accounts) I want it to take them more than 5min and a VPN to make a 3rd account
I'm okay with extreme solutions, like requiring everyone to have a Yubikey-or-similar physical key
I really hate the trend of relying on a phone number or Google capcha as a not-a-bot detection. Both have tons of problems
but spam (automated account creation) is a real problem

What kind of auth should I use for my websites?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

mCaptcha is a proof of work pseudo-captcha, it won't block bots completely, but it heavily rate limits them and makes them computationally expensive to run.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Benefits - costs: If your benefits from having less spam and the work they are doing by solving the task are greater than your costs this is acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't work on Mull browser (hardened Firefox for android) :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, does it block js or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It uses the arkenfox thingie. It doesn't block JS, but it does block a lot of things and possibly certain JS features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

While I'm really glad to hear about it, I think it would work great for DDOS detection, I don't know that it works for preventing spam accounts. I'm pretty sure puppeteer with GPT4 could check that box no problem.