> adding a captcha to a site does nothing to prevent bots, it just alters the economics of any business that relies on the data
Definitely agreed. Recently I have been working on a side-project that makes use of bypassing/placating reCaptcha and it has been trivial and not so costly.
If it is accounts you're creating, it simply puts a "reasonable" price on account creation. If it is about scraped content, once again, does the same. However these costs already existed in terms of compute resources and time anyway. Captchas hardly made it any harder.
Definitely agreed. Recently I have been working on a side-project that makes use of bypassing/placating reCaptcha and it has been trivial and not so costly.
If it is accounts you're creating, it simply puts a "reasonable" price on account creation. If it is about scraped content, once again, does the same. However these costs already existed in terms of compute resources and time anyway. Captchas hardly made it any harder.