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0 pointsmattnewton7mo ago0 comments

If this kind of security by not being noticed is the plan, why not just have a trivial (but unique) captcha that asks the user to click a button with no battery wasting computation?

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account427mo ago

Because you can't sell that as a commercial solution that the open source software ecosystem provides free advertising to.

wat100007mo ago

That works too, but not quite as well so it decreases the unwanted activity somewhat less.

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0 pointsmattnewton7mo ago0 comments

If this kind of security by not being noticed is the plan, why not just have a trivial (but unique) captcha that asks the user to click a button with no battery wasting computation?

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account427mo ago

Because you can't sell that as a commercial solution that the open source software ecosystem provides free advertising to.

wat100007mo ago

That works too, but not quite as well so it decreases the unwanted activity somewhat less.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse