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CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project%29), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA. Nowadays, we might have to go back to that... maybe by mining crypto as a proof of effort.

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