I normally agree with concerns about security through obscurity, but I disagree here: this isn’t a security feature. It is spam protection. Everything that creates more work for any attacker here helps reducing spam, on top of that Google itself uses code obsfucation (”Security through obscurity”) in their Captcha for precisely that reason.
It won’t scale, because it mustn’t scale. It is a dead simple solution to a complicated problem and works as long as it works, without selling your user data and brainpower toone of the biggest tech companies there is.
If it should happen that the spam bots overcome it or your site becomes big enough to be targeted you just change it for something stricter, stronger or more sophisticated.
It won’t scale, because it mustn’t scale. It is a dead simple solution to a complicated problem and works as long as it works, without selling your user data and brainpower toone of the biggest tech companies there is.
If it should happen that the spam bots overcome it or your site becomes big enough to be targeted you just change it for something stricter, stronger or more sophisticated.