Captchainbox – make senders work to get into your inbox

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• cool
  by t-zebala
• these captcha farms offering solver apis can probably bypass this too, is that something on your mind? feels like in the end a paywall is the only thing left that survives agents. how do you see this playing out for the product?
  by muneebdotahmed
• Yeah I feel right now captchas can do a decent job of providing some friction, also captcha providers work on upping their game. the pay-to-deliver is what I see as the ultimate show that this message should be relevant.
  by felixdoerp
• I like the proof-of-work angle. Have you thought about how you'll handle legitimate first-time emails like account verification or password resets that can't complete the challenge?
  by paulburkhardt
• yeah I think this is for sure the issue that I currently do not have a solution for.

  for those emails I would (currently) need to rely on the user to check their archive if they specifically wait for a password reset, for example.

  by felixdoerp