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

• greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Care to expand on that? Why are captchas bad?

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    • greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • Redex68@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Idk man, I’ve seen hundreds of examples showcasing how they significantly reduce bot traffic. The point isn’t to make it impossible for a bot to get past it, it’s to make it so expensive per request that it’s not worth it.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • cevn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Agree

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Because they are anti-vpn and thus anti-privacy.

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  • anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why is this bad

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    • greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wasting time on useless obstacles is bad

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      • anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They’re meant to prevent bot traffic to sites

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      • underwire212@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The obstacles serve a specific purpose though. Do you believe this purpose is unimportant?

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