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Discussion on: Preventing malicious authentication attempts while avoiding CAPTCHAs.

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Tobias SN

CAPTCHAs aren’t for security, they’re for preventing bots from for example creating a ton of accounts or spamming a contact form.

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Tari R. Alfaro

Actually, CAPTCHAs are also used for sign in processes in some services. Discord for example takes this approach. And it provides security ... KIND OF.

If you have a script/bot hammering sign in page, you could protect it with CAPTCHAs. The whole point of CAPTCHAs is to prevent bots/scripts.

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Tobias SN

I never said anything about sign in processes.