▲ 420 ▼ Scan to Verify You're Human (thelemmy.club) submitted 2 months ago by sidebro@lemmy.zip to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 105 comments fedilink hide all child comments No I don't think so
[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 child) that's been true for years now: captchas have been a mild inconvenience for bots for like 10 years. they are, like so many things, pure security theater...not actual security. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago They were introduced as a way to crowdsource OCR Google would give two words, one they knew and one they didn't 4chan screwed with them back in the day by all giving the same wrong answer on the second word so their OCR would scan wrong permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago They were introduced as a way to crowdsource OCR Google would give two words, one they knew and one they didn't 4chan screwed with them back in the day by all giving the same wrong answer on the second word so their OCR would scan wrong permalink fedilink source parent
