Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human

• 9bananas@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  that’s been true for years now:

  captchas have been a mild inconvenience for bots for like 10 years.

  they are, like so many things, pure security theater…not actual security.

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They were introduced as a way to crowdsource OCR

    Google would give two words, one they knew and one they didn’t

    4chan screwed with them back in the day by all giving the same wrong answer on the second word so their OCR would scan wrong

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