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Comment by janice1999

16 hours ago

Question for web devs - are captchas effective any more? If Reddit required a captcha on every comment, would it actually decrease bot comments?

There's a reason Google is switching to "scan this QR code on your phone with a Google-authorized TPM" kind of CAPTCHAs

> Question for web devs - are captchas effective any more?

They’re effective at annoying humans. Driving traffic away from your site. Reducing conversation rates.