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Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA

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Re: Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA

#4

Post by jeroenhd »

anigbrowl wrote: post #2

Congratulations, now it will get upgraded and become more work for humans to solve, increasing the burden on every non-malicious user.

It's not like bots aren't already bypassing these CAPTCHAs. One author writing a blog post about how they accomplished what spammers and bots have been doing for ages isn't going to change anything.

I just opened 4chan and after the initial Cloudflare bot detection I was told to register an email or wait 15 minutes before I was allowed to even obtain a CAPTCHA. Looks like they're already taking a layered approach to combat bots.

Re: Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA

#5

Post by blackjackfoe »

jeroenhd wrote: post #4
anigbrowl wrote: post #2

Congratulations, now it will get upgraded and become more work for humans to solve, increasing the burden on every non-malicious user.

It's not like bots aren't already bypassing these CAPTCHAs. One author writing a blog post about how they accomplished what spammers and bots have been doing for ages isn't going to change anything. I just opened 4chan and after the initial Cloudflare bot detection I was told to register an email or wait 15 minutes before I was allowed to even obtain a CAPTCHA. Looks like they're already taking a layered approach to…

(author here) Interestingly, the email registration/time-limit was added after I started this project, but before I told anyone about it.
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