Introducing Proton CAPTCHA | Proton
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We developed our own CAPTCHA service to ensure it is secure, respects privacy, and optimized to be usable by everyone. Find out how it works.

At Proton, we’re always working on new and innovative ways to protect the privacy and data of the Proton community.

Yeah, I guess that’s nice. I do like Proton.

I’d love for Proton to focus on completing some current services and make them actually usable though.

  • Lung@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Feels like releasing a new (privacy oriented) horse drawn buggy design just as automobiles are taking off

    Captcha has already been extremely questionable for years, as there are open source tools to break em, and AIs emerging that can describe what’s in images

    Take as a case study RuneScape building custom captcha games during login to try and dissuade bots. It didn’t work, the bots easily adapted to the new games

    Google’s reCaptcha no longer recommends any user interaction at all. The new methodology is using AI to wholistically examine user behavior/identity with as much data as possible

    Basically, I think Proton wasted their time, and captchas are a dumb system. They added computational challenges, but they start easy and are pitched when image fails. So I’m not so convinced that they will work better than cloudflare