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  5. 		<title>Google ReCaptcha — lanodan’s cyber-home</title>
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  10. 			<h1>Google ReCaptcha</h1>
  11. 			<p>Google ReCaptcha is one of the most horrible insult one can send to it's user base.</p>
  13. 			<h2>KillBots</h2>
  14. 			<p>The raison-d’être of Boston Dynamics is to produce military drones. Google bought that company. They are used against citizens (<a rel="external" href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/02/robot-war-dog-company-objects-to-their-robot-war-dogs-being-called-war-dogs/">NYPD war dogs</a>), I guess they needed to mecanize the dogs of the state.</p>
  16. 			<h2>User-farm</h2>
  17. 			<p>The internet is not a free workforce, if you want people to take time training your AIs or to do reviews, contract them properly.</p>
  18. 			<p>I will also not produce work where I don't have any rights on it's final product. For example, want me to fill Google Maps? Nah, <a rel="external" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/about">OpenStreetMap</a> is a much better project for this.</p>
  20. 			<h2>Captcha alternatives</h2>
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  22. 				<q>On the internet no ones knows you're a dog.</q> Well now everyone wants you to use your automata to proove that you're not an automata through skills that aren't human-defining, what a joke, here is some alternatives:
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  24. 					<li>Use an invite-system, can be bootstrapped with allowing a contact method in case people do not have invites</li>
  25. 					<li>Use proof-of-computing <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/mkproof">mkproof</a> is an example that scales well on users machines</li>
  26. 					<li>Combine both?</li>
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  29. 			<p>And if you throw captchas at already fully logged in connections or at the login page, you have a security problem or you need to learn about rate-limiting. Do your job.</p>
  30. 			<p><a href="https://queer.hacktivis.me/objects/6fce4477-d77f-4328-9f51-dbd89194dfa0">Fediverse post for sharing and comments</a>, published on 2021-02-27T19:32:40Z, last updated on 2021-02-27T19:32:40Z</p>
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