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typis7 on July 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't chang...

Captchas are dismissive towards users.

You throw humans and robots in the same basket and tell all of them to solve a puzzle or you won't talk to them.

coldpie on July 30, 2015 [–]

I understand your point, but do you have a better suggestion to solve the spam problem? It's a really hard problem, and CAPTCHAs do a reasonable job of solving it at low cost to the end user.

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