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91 points richardzhang | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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colesantiago ◴[19 Nov 24 02:40 UTC] No.42179624[source]▶
This is actually dangerous.

This is how you see spammers, scammers and grifters target people with fake bots on most platforms and the producer i.e. Venmo traces it to an SDK and will kill all these unofficial API consumers.

And once captchas are introduced it's over, I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like captchas would be implemented more into websites to stop scrapers for good.

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1. HeatrayEnjoyer ◴[19 Nov 24 02:53 UTC] No.42179676[source]▶
Goody idea in 2014 but it is 2024 and AI capabilities defeat nearly all "Prove you are a human" challenges.
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2. colesantiago ◴[19 Nov 24 03:25 UTC] No.42179844[source]▶
> ...AI capabilities defeat nearly all "Prove you are a human" challenges

Not really, seeing lots of captchas from Arkose, Cloudflare, HCaptcha, etc keep up with this in stopping bots.