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pmontra | on: Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
It will not scare away bots but 10 seconds of wait (CPU or only a sleep) will turn away many real users. "This site is so slow, I'll use something else." A kind of reverse captcha.
Hnrobert42 | parent | next
Maybe, the proof of work can run in the background.
btown | root | parent
Or it can run as part of a checkout wizard's "verifying your browser and processing your payment, don't close your tab" step.
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