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by bambax 1422 days ago
https://mcaptcha.org/docs/prologue/introduction is a 404. (It's the link behind the "Get Started" button.)

A one-sentence describing exactly what it does and how it works would help ;-)

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yikes! The docs had an overhaul last week, that link was removed as part of the overhaul. Should have paid more attention. Should be fixed now :)

> A one-sentence describing exactly what it does and how it works would help ;-)

Here goes nothing:

mCaptcha is a privacy-focused, highly accessible CAPTCHA that uses Proof of Work for rate-limiting. It makes the bot/spam spend more time and work sending the request than it takes for the server to respond.