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mattnewton on Aug 21, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the L...

If this kind of security by not being noticed is the plan, why not just have a trivial (but unique) captcha that asks the user to click a button with no battery wasting computation?

account42 on Aug 21, 2025 | [–]

Because you can't sell that as a commercial solution that the open source software ecosystem provides free advertising to.

wat10000 on Aug 21, 2025 | [–]

That works too, but not quite as well so it decreases the unwanted activity somewhat less.

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