• Mubelotix
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    764 days ago

    Exactly. It’s called proof-of-work and was originally invented to reduce spam emails but was later used by Bitcoin to control its growth speed

    • JackbyDev
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      83 days ago

      It’s funby that older captchas could be viewed as proof of work algorithms now because image recognition is so good. (From using captchas.)

      • Mubelotix
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        3 days ago

        Interesting stance. I have bought many tens of thousand of captcha soves for legitimate reasons, and I have now completely lost faith in them

      • @[email protected]
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        That’s actually a good idea. A very simple “click the frog” captcha might be solvable by an AI but it would work as a way to make it more expensive for crawlers without wasting compute resources (energy!) on the user or slowing down old devices to a crawl. So in some ways it could be a better alternative to Anubis.