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405 points blindgeek | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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isodev ◴[] 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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Nextgrid ◴[] 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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1. spacebanana7 ◴[] No.42173021[source]
There're also more good faith use cases like stopping credit card testing, ticket reselling and forum spam.