but captcha is trash whose only purpose is to train ai for google
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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoCaptcha.
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.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
What?
You don’t need to use google, or cloudfare, captcha to have a captcha.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
google is like 95% of the captchas on the internet.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
So? You have free will to use another captcha.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 5 days 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?
Randelung@lemmy.world 5 days 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
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days 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?
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 5 days ago
But they currently can’t and that’s the point.