I don’t really get where this article is going. They are all over the place.

Let’s start with a fuck google. They are a evil company. But:

• Other captchas are also not very effective against bots. Arguably most traditional systems would be worst that recaptcha at fighting bots.

• Recaptcha agent validation while a privacy violation is faster than solving any other captcha and if you are hit with the puzzle is not that much more time consuming that every other captcha.

• That profit number is very questionable and they know it. Anyway, that’s no much different and probably less profitable that most google services.

Also is ridiculous how someone can say in the same article that the image puzzle can be solved by bots 100% of the time and that is a scheme to get human labor to solve the puzzle. Am I the only one seeing the logical failure here?

And what’s the purpose of all this? Just let bots roam free? Are they trying to sell other solution? What’s the point?

I hate google as much as the next guy. But I don’t really share this article spirit.

If I were to make a point. They point will be that people and companies should stop making registration only sites and dynamic sites when static websites are enough for their purposes. And only go for registration or other bot-vulnerable kind of sites of there is no way around it. But if you need to make a service that is vulnerable to bots, you need to protect it, and sadly there’s not great solutions out there. If your site is small and not targeted by anyone malicious specifically you can get with simpler solutions. But bigger or targeted sites really can’t get around needing google or cloudfare and assume that it will only mitigate the damage.

But if anyone knows a better and more ethical solution to prevent bot spam for a service that really need to have registrations, please tell me.