Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare

• greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Care to expand on that? Why are captchas bad?

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    • greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry, I assumed this was already common knowledge. There’s another thread fork from a comment.

      Tl;dr they’re not good at their purpose and cause unneeded annoyance to users.

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      • cevn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Agree

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And the cloudflare ones are broken as fuck. It varies but I often just can’t pass them. Answer it, wheel goes round and then back to having to tick it and start again. Beep boop.

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  • anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why is this bad

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    • greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wasting time on useless obstacles is bad

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      • anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They’re meant to prevent bot traffic to sites

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