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		cush on Aug 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting... This is a pro-bot rate-limiter. In reality, most humans use low-spec feature phones with slow CPUs. This punishes those humans and promotes bots running on GPUs and highjacked cloud infra.

ranger_danger on Aug 4, 2022 [–]

Why not just start out rate-limiting everyone equally with a timer or something?

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