• FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I don’t know, it is clear that Google is getting free labor out of users solving their captchas.

    However, I disagree with captchas being ineffective. If captchas were so ineffective there won’t be sites dedicated to having people in developing countries solve them.

    It is very easy to make a script that makes accounts by sending post requests without captchas. It requires little skill. You can see this with new lemmy instances being filled with spam until the admin adds a captcha or questionnaire.

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      3 months ago

      They are absolutely effective. Effective at getting me to just press the back arrow and find an alternative website that doesn’t disrespect my time.

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      3 months ago

      By following links in the article, one reaches https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12108, which includes the table:

      The claim of the story is not that CAPTCHAs have zero effect on a website (they obviously do ward off against casual “attackers” and also obviously cause some legit users to abandon the website).