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Yeah, I guess that’s nice. I do like Proton.

I’d love for Proton to focus on completing some current services and make them actually usable though.

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[–] lung 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Feels like releasing a new (privacy oriented) horse drawn buggy design just as automobiles are taking off

Captcha has already been extremely questionable for years, as there are open source tools to break em, and AIs emerging that can describe what's in images

Take as a case study RuneScape building custom captcha games during login to try and dissuade bots. It didn't work, the bots easily adapted to the new games

Google's reCaptcha no longer recommends any user interaction at all. The new methodology is using AI to wholistically examine user behavior/identity with as much data as possible

Basically, I think Proton wasted their time, and captchas are a dumb system. They added computational challenges, but they start easy and are pitched when image fails. So I'm not so convinced that they will work better than cloudflare

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

even if you're right, obsolete technologies usually hang around for way longer than they should. so this could still be useful in some capacity for the next 20 years, even if it is annoying and easily defeatable. kind of like putting a really shitty lock on something. It won't stop anyone determined, but it will stop 99% of people from opening it.

[–] lung 2 points 1 year ago

Problem is that this only matters for botters, and those are the guys who showed up with the bolt cutters