• Azura The Spellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Bots can solve captchas more accurately and more efficiently than humans. For example, I use the browser extension Captcha Buster to solve Google Captchas for me. Nowadays websites instead use proof-of-work “captchas”, which require the visitors’ devices to solve cryptographic challenges (similar to bitcoin mining). This is why they sometimes takes a few seconds to complete (even more on low end smartphone / battery saving mode). But even those only slow down, not prevent bot access.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      Yup short of some insane surveillance of all users, there’s just no way to prevent bots. So the only action we can take is stay vigilant and report any bot activities and clean up as much as we can.