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minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up102·edit-21 day agoNon paywalled link https://archive.is/VcoE1 It basically boils down to making the browser do some cpu heavy calculations before allowing access. This is no problem for a single user, but for a bot farm this would increase the amount of compute power they need 100x or more.
minus-squareexu@feditown.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 hours agoIt inherently blocks a lot of the simpler bots by requiring JavaScript as well.
minus-squareMubelotix@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up63·1 day agoExactly. 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
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours agoIt’s funby that older captchas could be viewed as proof of work algorithms now because image recognition is so good. (From using captchas.)
minus-squareMubelotix@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 hours agoInteresting stance. I have bought many tens of thousand of captcha soves for legitimate reasons, and I have now completely lost faith in them
minus-squareRandomTester@lemmybefree.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·14 hours agoit wasn’t made for bitcoin originally? didn’t know that!
minus-square0xebfe@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·12 hours agoOriginally called hashcash: http://hashcash.org/
minus-squareRandomTester@lemmybefree.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·12 hours agoyou know it’s old when it doesn’t have ssl
minus-squarelazynooblet@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoThank you for the link. Good read
Non paywalled link https://archive.is/VcoE1
It basically boils down to making the browser do some cpu heavy calculations before allowing access. This is no problem for a single user, but for a bot farm this would increase the amount of compute power they need 100x or more.
It inherently blocks a lot of the simpler bots by requiring JavaScript as well.
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
It’s funby that older captchas could be viewed as proof of work algorithms now because image recognition is so good. (From using captchas.)
Interesting stance. I have bought many tens of thousand of captcha soves for legitimate reasons, and I have now completely lost faith in them
it wasn’t made for bitcoin originally? didn’t know that!
Originally called hashcash: http://hashcash.org/
you know it’s old when it doesn’t have ssl
TIL
Thank you for the link. Good read