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According to google search, captcha solving companies charges 0.3c per captcha[1], which basically translates to half an hour of PoW for digitalocean instance. So if the PoW is less than half hour, spammers would need to pay less with PoW. [1]: https://2captcha.com/pricing
Then I guess the value comes with the privacy and human-friendliness, then :)
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"Content blockers" are trivial to bypass though. It's a half-assed "solution".
What do you mean? Safari also supports regular WebExtensions for advanced blocking. I truly don’t know what you’re referring to.
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Then I guess the value comes with the privacy and human-friendliness, then :)
Web filled to the brim with bot content isn't my idea of human friendly.
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"This is never clear, and I end up usually getting it wrong until they show me one that's unambiguous." While those CAPTCHAs present a surface narrative of you having to get the problem correct, that's not how they really work. After all, it's not like they are creating those problems by hand. They're pushing the images through computers. You don't even know that what the CAPTCHA server considers correct is even clos…
Interesting, I guess this explains why I can never "solve" the damn things on my desktop. I use an Ultimate Hacking Keyboard which has a mouse layer, so I control the mouse cursor with my keyboard. It means that my mouse always travels in either perfectly horizontal, perfectly vertical, or perfectly diagonal patterns, and at very different timings than a human using a traditional mouse would. But, it pisses me off to…
Surely this is just your preference and the setup isn't objectively better. I can see see some people prefer moving a mouse with a keyboard but they likely wouldn't be as quick/precise as people with an actual mouse.
I wouldn't even mind ads if most sites weren't malicious with how they serve them. Do not make a new window pop up, do not try to download anything to my computer without my explicit instruction, do not make me click an x to view the content, do not interrupt the content to serve an ad. Why can't they just have a nice little ad on the left and/or right side of the page that doesn't interrupt my intake of their conten…
Greed. Those kinds of ads pay more. Interrupting the content means they can sell the spot as something people will actually see because they are forced to.
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At least we got some of my all-time favorite GitHub issues tho
Out of curiosity, could you post a couple?
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Greed. Those kinds of ads pay more. Interrupting the content means they can sell the spot as something people will actually see because they are forced to.
Yeah, it's greed. Greed by advertising networks, greed by the companies placing the ads, greed by the reader wanting unlimited content for free.