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What stops you dropping the connection the moment you realize you're being loading barred.
Presumably the point is that the user (or bot) wants to access the content, a connection would have to complete the load successfully to do what they came for. if they just drop it instantly then that's a bot turned away.
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Perhaps you think all PoW algorithms are still crackable by ASICs? A few years ago that was the case, but some years ago Monero developers made a breakthrough with RandomX. Now it is no longer true that a GPU or ASIC can outperform a typical consumer device to the extent that you seem to imagine. The Tor project uses a similar algorithm, i think with the same developer contributing to it as RandomX. It is nothing lik…
Will RandomX work on the old cell phones, via Javascript interface only? The website says: "Fast mode - requires 2080 MiB of shared memory. Light mode - requires only 256 MiB of shared memory, but runs significantly slower" If you want your website challenge to work on the cheap phone - slow CPU, with little memory, and when implemented in Javascript, you'd have to tune complexity way down. And when a modern PC with…
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Cutting edge tech like paying cents to captcha solving services?!
Yep. You'd be surprised how stupid some bots are. (And while I don't have hard data on this, I suspect that bot authors that don't know how to properly set up rate-limits and don't know how to set up captcha solving service bypass, so captchas are especially effective against them)