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by jbd0 915 days ago
I have been locked out of websites for solving a captcha so quickly that it thought I was a bot. So we went from requiring humans to solve a puzzle that bots can't to now requiring that humans solve the puzzle slower than bots do.
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The most funny thing about this limit is that it's self-reinforcing. Bots will learn to sleep() and wiggle the mouse. Humans will learn to wait. Everyone will be worse off.