Comment by bgwalter
11 days ago
"AI" is certainly creating problems that can be monetized. So humans get the Cloudflare captchas in order to access their own content at Stackoverflow and Mathoverflow, and "AI" crawlers get the data highway for a fee.
And all of this does not stop the incumbents who have already stolen everything.
Cloudflare has not used CAPTCHAs since 2023: https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-ga/
To save a visit: they use turnstile, a captcha replacement. The checkbox with verify you are a human. I would call that a captcha, but it is debatable if a non-puzzle check is.
If I say CloudFlare captcha and you know what I mean, does it really matter?
Having to click "Verify you are a human" every single time is still awful.
Especially when it asks you to do it again, and again, until you realise you're never going to be allowed to see the page.
I've had that happen a few times with sites behind Cloudflare.
Turnstile still a click, and that click is already exploited for phishing (note that Turnstile is also called CAPTCHA on the following site, though you are technically correct):
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/fake-cloudflare-captc...