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Only approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternatives (cybernews.com)
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[–] TheNamlessGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Sure, they may block the most basic of basic bots. But for most languages in which bots are made, there are ready-made libraries for captcha solving that are essentially plug-and-play. To move from "basic" to "makes captcha useless" is an install and about 2 lines of code.

Given that, I highly doubt it blocks bots as effectively as it blocks actual users.

AFAIK all captcha is good for these days is training data.