Comment by necovek

Comment by necovek 3 days ago

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But for actual live users who don't see anything but a transient screen, Anubis is a better experience than all those pesky CAPTCHAs (I am bored of trying to recognize bikes, pedestrian crossings, buses, hydrants).

The question is if this is the sweet spot, and I can't find anyone doing the comparative study (how many annoyed human visitors, how many humans stopped and, obviously, how many bots stopped).

JimDabell 3 days ago

> Anubis is a better experience than all those pesky CAPTCHAs (I am bored of trying to recognize bikes, pedestrian crossings, buses, hydrants).

Most CAPTCHAs are invisible these days, and Anubis is worse than them. Also, CAPTCHAs are not normally deployed just for visiting a site, they are mostly used when you want to submit something.

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  • necovek 3 days ago

    We are obviously living a different Internet reality, and that's the whole point — we need numbers to really establish baseline truth.

    FTR, I am mostly browsing from Serbia using Firefox browser on a Linux or MacOS machine.

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    • JimDabell 3 days ago

      I don’t think we are living in a different reality, I just don’t think you are accounting for all the CAPTCHAs you successfully pass without seeing.

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      • necovek 3 days ago

        Wouldn't it be nice to have a good study that supports either your or my view?

        FWIW, I've never been stopped by Anubis, so even if it's much more rarely implemented, that's still infinitely less than 5-10 captchas a day I do see regularly. I do agree it's still different scales, but I don't trust your gut feel either. Thus a suggestion to look for a study.

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      • martin_a 3 days ago

        Not OP but try browsing the web with a combination of Browser + OS that is slightly off to what most people use and you'll see Captchas pop up at every corner of the Internet.

        And if the new style of Captchas is then like this one it's much more disturbing.

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