[catlover76]

Am I the only one who feels that CAPTCHAs are pretty hostile to users and also, as far as blocking bots go, kind of in conflict with the ethos of generally open info sharing in tech? I mean, if your website is out there in public, why shouldn't it be crawlable? I am not sure I see strong valid reasons for such restriction.

I abhor it whenever I have to click "all images with trees" and all that kind of stuff.

[blaumaus]

Well, imo captchas are still useful in pages like sign up or contact page.

It may work well without a captcha for years until someone desides to spam the contact form with 1000s of messages or register hundreds of fake accounts just to harm the business.

But I agree - overusing captchas is dumb and will only irritate a user

[catlover76]

Oh that makes sense, and is probably a pretty simple and realistic reason that I was naive not to account for lol