Here’s a crazy idea: make the CAPTCHAs so complicated humans can’t complete them.
That way if someone does, you know they’re a bot.
I should probably patent that or something. (Is joke, etc.)
This very circumstance is described in the book „Qualityland“ and probably many more literature. The book is about a man living in the near (and completely enshitified) future who is confronted by a defunct algorithm that automatically bought him a dolphin dildo. Seeing no way of returning it by normal means - the algorithm is always right and does not accept returns after all - he sets out to right this wrong and discovers the mechanisms and people behind the screens that dictate every aspect of your life.
I give up on any captcha with mor than 1 image. The problem is you aren’t letting people in, even if you are catching bots. You’ll have to turn it off to let people in.
They usually only do it when you’re on a vpn. So you just have to give up your privacy and disable the vpn to be seen as human.
