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		_448 on Aug 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting... Commercial spammers use high-end resources, where as users don't have that luxury. So will it not be easy for the spammers to scale the resources to overcome this?

web007 on Aug 4, 2022 [–]

It's not that they can't scale, it's that you want them to HAVE to scale, to make it more expensive to attack your site than another one.

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