“This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 days ago

    The CAPTCHA is question is Cloudflare Turnstile, which slowly ramps up a different assortment of invisible challenges while not tracking your mouse movement or cross-site activity.

    If a bot can find all images with crosswalks in grainy photos faster than we can, surely it can check a box as well. Bots definitely can check a box, and they can even mimic the erratic path of human mouse movement while doing so. For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser.