• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    Here’s a crazy idea: make the CAPTCHAs so complicated humans can’t complete them.

    That way if someone does, you know they’re a bot.

    I should probably patent that or something. (Is joke, etc.)

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      This very circumstance is described in the book „Qualityland“ and probably many more literature. The book is about a man living in the near (and completely enshitified) future who is confronted by a defunct algorithm that automatically bought him a dolphin dildo. Seeing no way of returning it by normal means - the algorithm is always right and does not accept returns after all - he sets out to right this wrong and discovers the mechanisms and people behind the screens that dictate every aspect of your life.

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      Choose at random a captcha that a human could complete or one a human couldn’t complete (while the bot supposedly could complete all of them).

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      I give up on any captcha with mor than 1 image. The problem is you aren’t letting people in, even if you are catching bots. You’ll have to turn it off to let people in.

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        They usually only do it when you’re on a vpn. So you just have to give up your privacy and disable the vpn to be seen as human.