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

• nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…

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