The presumptions there are not all true in that captchas are unique to solving them:
Brute-force protection doesn’t require captchas to solve. IP throttling goes a long way, and botnets can be detected at scale too.
Form spam can be filtered by content filters instead.
Web scraping is the same deal as brute-force protection.
Fakes signup: if your user account is so highly valued, require phone number verification.
Web resources: again, rate limiting.
Sure captchas can help in those areas, but they are overly employed I think because they are a good business and those business keep pushing them as a solution for everything, and in turn create a bad internet user experience overral for how widespread they are now.
lkraider /
npub18c…s353s
2024-10-02 01:46:42
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npub18c8hgn254nhgutrlag9793x0n8qgnf864qll0nxr6rvlrdv6x33ses353sPublished at
2024-10-02 01:46:42Event JSON
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