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

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405 points blindgeek | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.292s | 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. bongodongobob ◴[18 Nov 24 15:20 UTC] No.42173133[source]▶
If you have any input forms they will be overrun by bots immediately. At my last job, marketing built a website and didn't tell IT. They had a "contact us" form without any kind of captcha. Took about a month to be completely flooded by bot spam.