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hot_gril
on Aug 8, 2023
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Friendly Captcha – GDPR-Compliant Bot Protection
Captchas are not just ddos protection, and even if it were, the botnets don't send tons of spam from any single device. Otherwise it's too easy to identify and block.
Kiro
on Aug 8, 2023
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That's why you use something like this, where each request incurs a cost for the attacker so it doesn't matter if the origins are distributed.
hot_gril
on Aug 8, 2023
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The attacker doesn't have to calculate the puzzles in one central place. It can do that on the hacked devices.
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