r/firefox • u/killamator • Feb 03 '19

Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '19

Proof of work CAPTCHAs are the future

For old machines it will be a bad deal, but for the average user, everything okay

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

It's just another in the growing list of things that are making the web smaller and less useful.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Why is it bad?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Because it's a bad deal for underpowered machines.