I hate it when they show you python code and you have to select all of the squares -.-
That just shows how braindead the idea of “protecting” a website with captchas and the like is. For one thing, given that they are used to train “AIs”, it’s a self-defeating concept.
Captchas are a useful measure to do rate limiting to prevent DoS, spam, crawling and brute-force attacks. Using services like recaptcha is a stupid idea because you enable tracking of your users. Also defeating a captcha many sites use is way more lucrative than a per-site specific one which can be changed immediately when too many bad requests are detected.
In a forum we use a much simpler method, simply wait half an hour or something more, before sending the confirmation email, if someone registers. This avoids spammers who all use a disposable temporary email for registration. Works like a charm. Captchas currently are obsolete and re-captchas de Google only a method to colect data of the user (if he don’t use a blocker, like everyone do). Because of this, Google search other methods to do this, FLoC and similar. Demential. Here you can test if you are a victim of this little Googlegift https://amifloced.org
The fact that they need JS is horrible.
Especially when they could easily be built not to.
