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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Captcha.

  It does all Anubis does. If a scrapper wants to solve it automatically it’s computer intensive, they have to run AI inference, but for the user it’s just a little time consuming.

  With captchas you don’t run aggressive software unauthorized on anyone’s computer.

  Solution did exist. But Anubis is “trendy” and they are masters in PR within some specific circles of people who always wants the lastest most trendiest thing.

  But good old captcha would achieve the same result as Anubis, in a more sustainable way.

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  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “good old captcha” is the most annoying thing ever for people and basically universally hated. Talking about leaving the page, what do you think what will cause more people to leave the page, a captcha that’s often broken or something where people don’t have to do anything but wait a little?

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    • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also universally useless. Image recognition solved Captcha ages ago and the new version from Google is literal spyware.

      Chuppl has a great video essay on it. youtu.be/VTsBP21-XpI

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They don’t have to do anything but let an unknown program to max their cpu unauthorized.

      Imagine if google would implement that. Billions of computers running PoW constantly, what could go wrong?

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      • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They don’t have to do anything but let an unknown program to max their cpu unauthorized.

        But they currently can’t and that’s the point.

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    but captcha is trash whose only purpose is to train ai for google

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What?

      You don’t need to use google, or cloudfare, captcha to have a captcha.

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      • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        google is like 95% of the captchas on the internet.

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