Hi all.
By link2xt:
“This makes sense for a bot to ask the user that they pass a CAPTCHA test before using the bot, but you can already do it if you build a Delta Chat bot .
But I don’t imagine integrating it into Delta Chat client itself, users themselves are still better than computers at distinguishing whether they chat with a human or not”
I would like to create a bot that checks whether the user is a human or a robot, a bot with hcaptcha, mCaptcha, Captcha etc.
So… Is possible?
For standard image recognition CAPTCHAs you can send the image to the user and ask for a text answer.
With mCaptcha and other proof-of-work captchas it’s more difficult, but you can send a webxdc to the user that computes a proof-of-work (very cursed idea, please don’t, there are many better things to do with .xdc) This can indeed be integrated into DeltaChat in the form of Hashcash, but I am not sure it deters the bots, it’s mostly a tool against spam, unless you want to force computing it for every message and drain the user phone battery.