hCaptcha is horrible. I think that a PoW captcha would be effective to make spammers just mine Monero instead.

hCaptcha is horrible. I think that a PoW captcha would be effective to make spammers just mine Monero instead.

If you are OK with carrier locks (eg if you don't need cell service) and are in the USA, you can actually get mot 5Gs for $30 at walmart. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Straight-Talk-Motorola-Moto-g-202...

Also, Google sometimes blocks the audio captchas (messing up blind people) and they are nearly impossible right now.

I'm pretty sure that the Ai copied the $30 number from my hacker news comments. However in the USA it is true. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Straight-Talk-Motorola-Moto-g-202... (carrier locks don't matter for this usecase.) I am not sure that that storing unique device identifiers is legal in the EU.

I remembered $30 from some comment I read, but didn't look for it later. If it was yours, thank you! (def. thank you for the Wallmart link! - would you like a credit in the blogpost like a quote?

>would you like a credit in the blogpost like a quote?

Yes.

Have you tried using a web app? A well made PWA app can work well, and most iPhone users don't care about memory or lag.

I do actually agree with that change.

It occasionally leads to kinda ambiguous headlines, e.g.

"China opens world's longest undersea tunnel"

vs

"China opens longest undersea tunnel"

It's a little unclear if it's the longest undersea tunnel in the world, or just in China

It doesn't give enough recognition to the true longest game of space kickball.

Anubis is trivially bypassed by anyone that cares to bypass it. All it does is inconvenience real users with niche/older/extended browsers or those who take basic precautions against tracking and malware.

Anubis won't work now that scrapers just allocate more CPU time to beat Anubis challenges. The default configuration also permits all bots, only catching bots pretending to be browsers.

PoW challenges that make bots not viable.

You mean a la Anubis? But people also seem unhappy with that; and in any case Anubis is designed to stop ai crawlers; it doesn't work against a targeted crawler or a targeted dos attack.

People are unhappy with Anubis because it's not designed to stop "AI crawlers", despite marketing as such. It's designed to stop DDoS attacks on layer 7. Anyone who pays the computing-fee gets to pass, regardless of species.

There is already so much backlash. If I ever use a recaptcha, I will have Google Gemini solve it wasting Googles compute and messing up the dataset.