Comment by wat10000

Comment by wat10000 3 days ago

3 replies

If they become aware of it and actually think it’s worthwhile. Malicious bots work by scaling, and implementing special cases for every random web site doesn’t scale. And it’s likely they never even notice.

mattnewton 3 days ago

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 3 days ago

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

  • wat10000 3 days ago

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