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janice1999yesterday at 8:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

Question for web devs - are captchas effective any more? If Reddit required a captcha on every comment, would it actually decrease bot comments?


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tardedmemeyesterday at 8:56 PM

There's a reason Google is switching to "scan this QR code on your phone with a Google-authorized TPM" kind of CAPTCHAs

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mr_toadyesterday at 9:55 PM

> Question for web devs - are captchas effective any more?

They’re effective at annoying humans. Driving traffic away from your site. Reducing conversation rates.

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