• T156@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s a double-edged sword. Just because it doesn’t work perfectly doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.

    To a spammer, building something with the ability to break a captcha is more expensive than something that cannot, whether in terms of development time, or resource demands.

    We saw with a few Lemmy instances that they’re still good at protecting instances from bots and bot signups. Removing captchas entirely means erasing that barrier of entry that keeps a lot of bots out, and might cause more problems than it fixes.

    • IAm_A_Complete_Idiot@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Problem is this assumes that everyone has to build their own captcha solver. It’s definitely a bare minimum standard barrier to entry, but it’s really not a sustainable solution to begin with.