Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them
There are much better ways of rate limiting that don’t steal labor from people.
hCaptcha, Microsoft CAPTCHA all do the same. Can you give example of some that can’t easily be overcome just by better compute hardware?
The problem is the unethical use of software that does not do what it claims and instead uses end users for free labor. The solution is not to use it. For rate limiting a proxy/load-balancer like HAProxy will accomplish the task easily. Ex:
haproxy.com/…/haproxy-forwards-over-2-million-htt…
haproxy.com/…/four-examples-of-haproxy-rate-limit…
serenissi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
hCaptcha, Microsoft CAPTCHA all do the same. Can you give example of some that can’t easily be overcome just by better compute hardware?
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
The problem is the unethical use of software that does not do what it claims and instead uses end users for free labor. The solution is not to use it. For rate limiting a proxy/load-balancer like HAProxy will accomplish the task easily. Ex:
haproxy.com/…/haproxy-forwards-over-2-million-htt…
haproxy.com/…/four-examples-of-haproxy-rate-limit…