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Attained | 5 years ago

That seems illegal in some places if true. The premise is that it proves we are not robots, and that's all.

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codetrotter|5 years ago

By tracking you, they can remember that you are not a robot. As much as I dislike tracking, I don’t think having the captcha be always hard would be all that great either.

Ideally I’d like to see fewer captchas. But there’s no good alternative to it really. I mean, requiring phone verification instead is an alternative. But I don’t necessarily want to hand out my phone number to each and every site on the net that I interact with either.

sroussey|5 years ago

You can prove trust once and get several tokens to spend later. There are various people looking at this like Cloudflare and Google.