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Is iPhone Captcha Necessary?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

This afternoon I decided to try out the Evernote application for the iPhone. In the process of installing the application, I had to go through a registration process. As I went through the process, I got to a reCaptcha form as displayed in the screenshot below. Why on earth would an iPhone %5 ... Continue reading »

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  • I'm actually surprised to see you ask why it's necessary. Of COURSE it's necessary. We live in a world of bots and automated registration that only leads to spam, spam, and more spam. If they didn't require captcha for all user-agents, then someone could just spoof the user-agent header to pretend like they were an iPhone and make 10,000 accounts.

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