It’s a combination.
Not captchas goals generally aren’t 100% prevention, it’s to put a workload in front, this makes spamming the site cost money, a bankrolled attempt could just as easily outsource the captchas to real humans.
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iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoAs I understand it, the point of those captchas was never really “bots can’t identify these things” (though you’re right on that it was used to train). They use cursor movement, clicks, and other behaviours while you’re solving it to detect if you are a bot or not.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anivia@feddit.org 1 month ago
a bankrolled attempt could just as easily outsource the captchas to real humans.
Exactly. I’ve been using 2captcha for that for over a decade now
Mushroomm@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Since I started getting good at yosu and that fishing mini game in farmrpg I’ve been failing more captchas. I wonder if they’re related knowing this
nieceandtows@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is that why I’m asked to do this over and over for 14 million times when I’m on a VPN?
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It is probably part of it, yeah. But to be clear I’m not a captcha expert or anything, just a layman.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The image choosing was always just to train their own bots