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LOL no. Bots can pass Captchas, but I hit the back button.

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Isn’t that because the bots were trained on us solving those? That’s what I’ve heard anyways.

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No, but it raises the difficulty bar for an attacker.

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No, CAPTCHAs can and will be bypassed. But you can make it expensive for bot hosters using PoW CAPTCHAs instead of normal ones. It’s also better privacy-wise.

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It depends on the captcha and the bot.

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The whole point of captchas is to train bots. Did you think they were all road object and optical character recognition based because those are the categories humans really excel at?

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I genuinely thought we were training Google’s self driving car algorithm, like back when we were proof reading their illegally scanned books’ OCR.

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