Comment by ACCount36
3 days ago
"Accessibility CAPTCHA" is a well known partial CAPTCHA bypass.
Solving an audio-only CAPTCHA with AI is typically way easier than solving some of the more advanced visual challenges. So CAPTCHA designers are discouraged from leaving any accessibility options.
Which totally proofs my point. The concept is deeply flawed, and inevitably leads to discrimination and dehumanisation.
Of course. But everything adjacent is also deeply flawed, and inevitably leads to discrimination and dehumanisation.
Ban non-residental IPs? You blocked all the guys in oppressive countries who route through VPNs to bypass government censorship. Ban people for odd non-humanlike behavior? You cut into the neurodivergent crowd, the disability crowd, the third world people on a cracked screen smartphone with 1 bar of LTE. Ban anyone without an account? You fuck with everyone at once and everyone will hate you.
So fuucking over blind, elderly and mentally challenged people is what you settled on, gven all the options? You're a really neat bunch.
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