Posts by Znuff 5 publicly visible posts • joined 14 May 2021
A few years ago, a client of mine rented a few 10Gbit servers from IONOS, about 15, in different locations across Europe.
Their network was struggling to keep up, barely seeing 2 gbit/s per server at peak hours. People were complaining about everything being slow as hell.
They ended up discontinuing their 10Gbit offers.
None of you seem to have ever had a website that required registration or some online contact form.
reCAPTCHA "may" be "solved" by generative AI and stuff like that (or so they claim...) , but I don't see that on the dozens of websites I manage that use it.
It still prevents 99% of the automated bot traffic and it does it well.
While CloudFlare's solution is *maybe* better, it's also not as widespread (yet).
As always, you have to compromise. If "free" blocks 99% of the automated annoyances, then it's perfect for most people.
The amount of bots ANY web form gets is frankly just insane these days.
Finding and blocking all possible bots would be an insane issue to tackle, and just too costly.
Imagine spending millions of dollars every month on bot blocking techniques (because bots change and adapt constantly) when you could simply implement reCaptcha (mostly for free) and call it a day.
Sure. They cheapened out on the solution. So now instead of reCapthca just working with 1 click from me, which takes me around 1 second, now I have to deal with hCaptcha.
And this post is indeed very ironic. I have NEVER spent so much time solving captchas for reCaptcha as I have had searching for Pictures of Boats in their hCaptcha shit.
So for them to come out with this is indeed very ironic.
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