Comment by wat10000
Technical people are prone to black-and-white thinking, which makes it hard to understand that making something more difficult will cause people to do it less even though it’s still possible.
Technical people are prone to black-and-white thinking, which makes it hard to understand that making something more difficult will cause people to do it less even though it’s still possible.
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?
I think the argument on offer is more, this juice isn't worth the squeeze. Each user is being slowed down and annoyed for something that bots will trivially bypass if they become aware of it.