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Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet

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131 points timshell | 4 comments | 25 Jun 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.747s | source
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qoez ◴[25 Jun 25 15:22 UTC] No.44378354[source]▶
I totally assumed typing cadence and mouse behaviour was incorperated into bot detection for years before this already, interesting.
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ipdashc ◴[25 Jun 25 16:53 UTC] No.44379408[source]▶
Yeah, I feel like I'm going crazy looking at that first example video. Was Google's CAPTCHA not supposed to analyze exactly that? Yet the mouse is insta-jumping to the input boxes, the input text is being pasted in instantaneously, and somehow it gets past? That seems utterly trivial to detect. Meanwhile us normal users are clicking on pictures of traffic lights all day?
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1. mitchitized ◴[25 Jun 25 17:00 UTC] No.44379504[source]▶
That is because I do not think Google's aims for captcha are the same as ours.

I can tell you that as soon as you download Chrome and login to any Google account of yours, the captcha tests are suddenly and mysteriously gone.

Use firefox in full-lockdown mode, and you will be clicking fire hydrants and crosswalks for the next several hours.

My crazy conspiracy theory is that Google is just using captcha as an opportunity to force everyone out of privacy mode, further empowering the surveillance capitalism engines. The intent is not to be effective, but inconvenient.

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2. Animats ◴[25 Jun 25 19:39 UTC] No.44381135[source]▶
Yes. As someone who runs with Firefox in full lockdown mode, including Privacy Badger and total blocking of Google Tag Manager, I have to click on a lot of fire hydrants and crosswalks.

Very few sites are broken by blocking Google's features, incidentally. Even Privacy Badger warns that blocking Google Tag Manager may break sites. It doesn't break anything important.

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3. busymom0 ◴[25 Jun 25 22:37 UTC] No.44382416[source]▶
For me it's having to click on bikes. Except the pictures are of motorcycles and not bicycles. English isn't my first language, so when I hear bike, I am thinking of bicycles and not motorcycles.
4. codedokode ◴[26 Jun 25 14:59 UTC] No.44388108[source]▶
I started using duckduckgo when Google requires to solve a captcha for searching.