More intrusive 'liveness' proofs coming up. Captchas on steroids.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2026
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I haven't had to fill out a captcha in a year or two. It's always just waiting a few seconds for cloudflare to determine I'm human.
I believe that this is a paraphrased quote, but “I weep for the future”.
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>Their activity can closely resemble ordinary browsing, but it happens at machine speed and can be repeated on an enormous scale.
I don't browse at machine speed. Perhaps there's a detection thingy to make. Perhaps not faster than 1 second per page.
(Why can't I properly use the markup in my replies?)
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