Signups in most platforms are quite hard. Straight up give your phone and do SMS verification, or at least give email and to register that email you will have to provide phone anyway. Captchas nowadays became so hard that even humans struggle with them and it often takes multiple attempts to get it right.

This is the most crazy read on subject in a while. Most articles just talk about hypothetical issues of tomorrow, while this one actually full of today’s problems and even costs of those issues in numbers and hours of pointless extra work. Had no idea it’s already this bad.