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• prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just don’t think many of us believe that, “it’s been happening in various forms for 20 years” is an acceptable reason to continue doing or accepting something.

  You act as if Captchas themselves weren’t created to prevent corporations from gaming the system. Like you do realize that the only reason that “every post you are making on this site blahblah” is because corporations just had to exploit the system for profit at the expense of literally everyone.

  So yeah, no. “You’ve been doing it already for 20 years” doesn’t cut it for me.

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  • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The 20 years thing was my bafflement as to why people felt the need to explain what Captchas are. Not a justification for their existence. When I ask “why” I think I’m pretty clearly not asking to have how Captchas work explained to me.

    Putting that aside, can you explain to me how asking you to identify a traffic light is “at the expense of literally everyone”?

    Someone was saying “they’ll train smart cars! And sell it to us as a subscription!” which I think is the same route you’re going down. But… how is that at the expense of everyone? And would not training smart cars benefit anyone? Is someone else going to do it? Is there a FOSS smart car I can contribue to? And is that FOSS going to prevent bad actors from training it to misbehave?

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    • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess you don’t value your time, but maybe as you get older you will learn to value it more.

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      • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m almost certainly older than you, but I’m still interested to hear how deliberately answering Captchas incorrectly saves time over answering them correctly.

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