Nice, but captchas are never a good measure to avoid bots, only to annoying users, apart from spying them, if it is from Google. Long before AI, bots could solve captchas better than humans. It is a clearly obsolete method. Apart the system used by Proton is impossible for blind users, Google captcha at least had an auditive captcha too.
It does stop bots, but only extremely simple bots that for instance scrape data. That’s mostly it though, more sophisticated bots can easily beat Captchas
Proton is trying to do too many things and can’t excel at doing one thing. It’s getting too big beyond its capabilities which means services are going to suffer at a lower quality.
If the want blanket trust from users, remove the VPN login to make it anonymous and change the VPN code to remove all anti-features and comply with native F-Droid, other RiseUpVPN is the only choice for everybody to use.
Lmao if you’re reading this, do not use RiseUp VPN.
What’s the problem with riseup? I’ve also read some other comments below, but their confusing wording does not help…
Sure, push a known malware free vpn service while bashing a service that is very well known and respected.
I have to admit that I don’t know enough about any of this to be sure I’m reading in the right way. Is it “known malware, free VPN” or “known malware-free VPN”?
Source for Riseup having known malware?
Other than making the web tedious to use, my biggest CAPTCHA complaint is that it puts the main providers in a position to monitor everyone’s web use. The blog post doesn’t address that, but it does say this:
No third-party services
Perhaps they mean it’s self-hosted? That would be very welcome. It might require open source code to catch on, since many site owners are uncomfortable running mystery code on our servers. That would be very welcome, too.
Here’s hoping it’s good.
since many site owners are uncomfortable running mystery code on our servers
And yet Node.js exists and flourishes.
