ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 5 months agoCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1190arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up1190arrow-down1external-linkCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squarePowderhorn@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoI was fine with it when it was wavy text to digitise old works. This shit is just asinine and a time sink.
minus-squarejarfil@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 months agoYeah… only OCR and AI have advanced to the point where a spammer/bot can easily bypass them. 20+ years ago, Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA. Nowadays, we might have to go back to that… maybe by mining crypto as a proof of effort.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoProof of work. See mCaptcha and Friendly Captcha.
I was fine with it when it was wavy text to digitise old works. This shit is just asinine and a time sink.
Yeah… only OCR and AI have advanced to the point where a spammer/bot can easily bypass them.
20+ years ago, Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA. Nowadays, we might have to go back to that… maybe by mining crypto as a proof of effort.
Proof of work. See mCaptcha and Friendly Captcha.