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I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)

(michaels.world)
405 points blindgeek | 3 comments | 18 Nov 24 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.431s | source
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isodev ◴[18 Nov 24 14:57 UTC] No.42172859[source]▶
Why are captchas even a thing still? If folks want to scrape something or build an automation around something, then why not let them do it? They still have to respect the system they're logging in. Not to mention the privacy perk of not exposing your visitors to some captcha service with a dozen or more data subprocessors.
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1. Nextgrid ◴[18 Nov 24 15:09 UTC] No.42172983[source]▶
Because despite ZIRP being long over, there are still plenty of people/companies making money off "engagement" - aka wasting a human's time. Automation/scraping/etc would go around that.
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2. spacebanana7 ◴[18 Nov 24 15:12 UTC] No.42173021[source]▶
There're also more good faith use cases like stopping credit card testing, ticket reselling and forum spam.
3. isodev ◴[18 Nov 24 15:21 UTC] No.42173150[source]▶
I feel folks forget that whatever captchas do (or a large portion of), can be a library without the need for a strange, inaccessible 3rd party service call.