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		dpassens 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative I think the general idea isn't that they can't but that they either won't, because they're not executing JS, or that it would slow them down enough to effectively cripple them.

jrochkind1 10 months ago [–]

As long as their not executing JS, they don't really need a PoW to stop them, though. Something much simpler that requires executing JS would do.

i might at any rate set my PoW to be relatively cheap, which would do for anyone not executing JS.

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