janice1999 3 hours ago

Question for web devs - are captchas effective any more? If Reddit required a captcha on every comment, would it actually decrease bot comments?

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mr_toad an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Question for web devs - are captchas effective any more?

They’re effective at annoying humans. Driving traffic away from your site. Reducing conversation rates.

	▲	krapp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And training LLMs.

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tardedmeme 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's a reason Google is switching to "scan this QR code on your phone with a Google-authorized TPM" kind of CAPTCHAs

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janice1999 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I've never seen a CAPTCHA like that. What's it used for? Google Cloud services?

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hurfdurf 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/int...

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Havoc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a reference to this I think

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-servi...

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janice1999 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Wow, that's bad. Looks like the warnings about TPM and remote attestation being a backdoor to total digital lockdown from the Stallman contingent were right.

	▲	seanw444 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The tin foil hatters are always told they're making slippery slope fallacies until they're proven right a few years later. Over and over again.

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layer8 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s only just been announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362