• biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Do we have to pull some cyberpunk 2077 type shit and make a new internet? Because it really sounds like it’s becoming a documentary

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    Well yeah, captcha/recaptcha was never designed to stop bots, but to spy without consent. Let’s not talk about the profit made by using it as unpaid labor to “decode” text and images for other companies. Should have been ditched long time ago.

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      It’s an accessibility issue too. I have a friend who is both hard of hearing and has visual problems, they can make out zoomed in plaintext but the captchas are just too much for them.

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    Here’s a crazy idea: make the CAPTCHAs so complicated humans can’t complete them.

    That way if someone does, you know they’re a bot.

    I should probably patent that or something. (Is joke, etc.)

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      This very circumstance is described in the book „Qualityland“ and probably many more literature. The book is about a man living in the near (and completely enshitified) future who is confronted by a defunct algorithm that automatically bought him a dolphin dildo. Seeing no way of returning it by normal means - the algorithm is always right and does not accept returns after all - he sets out to right this wrong and discovers the mechanisms and people behind the screens that dictate every aspect of your life.

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      Choose at random a captcha that a human could complete or one a human couldn’t complete (while the bot supposedly could complete all of them).

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      I give up on any captcha with mor than 1 image. The problem is you aren’t letting people in, even if you are catching bots. You’ll have to turn it off to let people in.

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        They usually only do it when you’re on a vpn. So you just have to give up your privacy and disable the vpn to be seen as human.

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          Generally true, but I had cases where I got multiple captcha without vpn, and not even a single one with VPN enabled…

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    We can create a simple captcha which most humans can solve, but AI can not with questions like “How many R letters are in Strawberry.

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      I’ve actually seen a few places (XMPP chatrooms and such) with captcha questions about math put there around year 2009 and still not obsolete against AI bots, I think. But - many humans will fail too.

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    23 hours ago

    The underlying issue is that somehow bots have value. Work on that and bypassing captchas will be a hobby again instead of a job.