[cssanchez]

Wow. It’s unfortunate that so many programmers dedicate their time to breaking systems like this all for spam. It’s pathetic the lengths we have to go to protect even the most basic parts of systems like sign up forms.

[79a6ed87]

I understand the "this is why we can't have nice things" sentiment.

On the other hand, it's a fascinating topic on a technical level and I wouldn't compare it to other system exploits that you may witness in real life of people taking advantage.

[moreresearchplz]

Not much different from the advertising industry itself, which always tries to find new ways to exploit human psychology.

[GoblinSlayer]

They just test correctness of your code for free. Now you don't have to hire testers.

[DeathArrow]

I don't get why. Probably there are more efficient ways to send spam.

[Gigachad]

This lets you send from an established domain that google trusts.

[drdaeman]

AFAIK, it's not humans, it's robots. Crawling webpages, looking out for forms, poking for typical vulnerabilities.

[paxys]

Unless there are self-aware robots out there crawling the internet and causing mayhem on their own, someone still had to build and deploy them.