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		thequux on Nov 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you... In those situations, captchas don't offer any improvement over a text field that always asks you to put a 3 in it. It's just different enough from other systems that it requires custom programming, and that's just not worth it for most small websites.

les_diabolique on Nov 27, 2020 [–]

If I'm specifically targeting that website, what's stopping me from writing a bot that would simply enter 3 all the time?

josephcsible on Nov 27, 2020 | [–]

If a website is low-value, you won't be specifically targeting it in particular.

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