ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year 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-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down10
arrow-up1168arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square22linkfedilink
minus-squarePowderhorn@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year 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-up1·1 year 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Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA.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.
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Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA.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.