Takumidesh@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per secondEnglish
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2 days agoDNS sinks can often cause elevated traffic numbers because the client is constantly failing and retrying.
I bet if you enabled it to test the numbers would drop dramatically.
It’s a combination.
Most captchas goals generally aren’t 100% prevention, it’s to put a workload in front, this makes spamming the site cost money, a bankrolled attempt could just as easily outsource the captchas to real humans.