Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness
blog.cloudflare.com
An experiment that uses hardware security keys (like a YubiKey) to replace CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: if a real human is sitting at their keyboard or uses their phone, they can touch their security key’s button or bring it near their phone to demonstrate that they are human.
  • Helix
    6•3 years ago

    I clicked on their demo page and couldn’t prove I’m a human. Their CAPTCHA is just as shit as all the others.

    I also honestly don’t know why every service needs a CAPTCHA. Just design your stuff in a way it can’t be abused. Not every site has to have a comment section, profiles, APIs and whatnot.

    I’m so old I even remember a time where CAPTCHAs were just an idea and nobody used them because they couldn’t see the point.

  • @Zerush
    5•3 years ago

    Captchas are obsolete today. For a long time there have been bots that solve them better than a human. The best example is the browser extension Buster, which solves Google re-Captchas with one click, including the auditory one.

  • @newhoa
    5•3 years ago

    Doesn’t the idea of needing a piece of hardware for every CAPTCHA seem even worse? They claim that’s going to take 5 seconds?

    • @poVoq
      3•1 year ago

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      • Helix
        1•3 years ago

        Why should I destroy my USB slot by constantly pulling the thing out, sticking it in, wiggling with my finger and whatnot?

        I have a FIDO2 USB dongle, but I rarely use it. Sonetimes I use the TPM or fTPM of my mainboard. If people used password managers, they wouldn’t need these hardware tokens. Apart from the fact you can only store a very limited amount of keys with limited encryption algorithms on them, and I bet the marketing industry finds a way to track you through them.

  • @j0ta
    3•3 years ago

    CloudFlare captcha only appear because page ADMIN HAS SET IS firewall on if they change it to low on cloudflare panel captcha will dissapear

    • @kevincox
      1•3 years ago

      But the default setting is still sufficiently annoying for a lot of people. I agree that for most cases they can be reduced.

      Plus if you use their IPFS gateway the domain owner doesn’t have control of this (and the settings are quite aggressive).