I’ve found that a lot of sites use captchas or captcha-like systems as a means of frustrating users as a way of keeping away certain people that they don’t want to access the site (intellectual property owners), though it’s not the only tactic that they use. I mean it works, pretty much all of those sites are still up today, despite serving data that’s copyrighted by Nintendo, Sony, and other parties.
We all knew this day would come, now it’s just a matter of making different captcha tests to evade these bots
Or the other approach, make it even harder for humans
…which is the current trend.
I’ve found that a lot of sites use captchas or captcha-like systems as a means of frustrating users as a way of keeping away certain people that they don’t want to access the site (intellectual property owners), though it’s not the only tactic that they use. I mean it works, pretty much all of those sites are still up today, despite serving data that’s copyrighted by Nintendo, Sony, and other parties.
New Captcha question: Does pressing a controller’s button harder make the character’s action more impactful?
if answer = yes : human
if answer = no : bot
if answer = depends on the game and system : gamer
If answer = depends on the hardware : engineer