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That's not a problem since websites that ask for captcha get added to my ublock filter.
Also hcaptcha exists.
Google has every incentive to break reCAPTCHA competitors and/or use botnets to spam anything not protected by reCAPTCHA.
So, is this the replacement for WEI by what some of the comments here are suggesting?
Who is still scanning QR codes? I thought after the nambla stuff people loss interest in scanning a weblink.
It says scanning for verification.
In the EU a lot of banking apps offer that.
Seems like a stupid vector for bad actors.
Of course, what else is new
I was thinking if it would be possible to to patch the version number to years in the future to try and stop the dodgy update.
No clue if such a thing would work just idle thoughts really.
Captcha in general are annoying to customers there is no point having them today too be fair. I would consider bot visits these days as potential costumers seeing how they can buy stuff online now. If your blocking your sites because your afraid they are scraping and using it for training. Then you are just blocking the small timers likely those people who wants to democratized AI like Deepseek. While the biggest culprit like Google's web crawlers have free rain to train on your data. Those who are determined will would just pass that to captcha farm.
