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0 pointsehsankia6y ago0 comments

If you come up with another way that is as effective in an ever growing world of bots trying to break anything in their way, I would love to use it.

I've had to pay 100x bills on my monthly quota once too often, and as a hobby developer, I just can't afford trying to fight off people abusing my website every day.

Yes, resorting to fingerprinting is not ideal, but what's better, asking everyone to solve that hard captcha, or only some users?

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tracker16y ago

Considering how easy it is to use real chrome with puppeteer, I'm inclined to not give the benefit of doubt on this one to google.

In the end, a custom captcha is probably a better solution, even if it is easier than google's.

driverdan6y ago

Use self-hosted CAPTCHA with simpler solutions. They still keep out the stupid bots that can't get past ReCAPTCHA.

gwoplock6y ago

> Use self-hosted CAPTCHA with simpler solutions

My favorite CAPTCHA is the one on the Arch Linux forms but I realize this cant be used many places. > What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha1sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?

Easy to do but hard to do with computers. My second favorite are the math problems one.

However if these become popular people will just write bots for them and were back to square 1.

vageli6y ago

> > Use self-hosted CAPTCHA with simpler solutions

> My favorite CAPTCHA is the one on the Arch Linux forms but I realize this cant be used many places. > What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha1sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?

> Easy to do but hard to do with computers. My second favorite are the math problems one.

> However if these become popular people will just write bots for them and were back to square 1.

Interesting...I wonder if they show destructive commands below a certain threshold. It would be funny if a captcha caused a bot to delete itself.

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