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

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131 points timshell | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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koalaman ◴[25 Jun 25 18:02 UTC] No.44380144[source]▶
I'm not sure reCAPTCHA is really trying to detect automated vs human interaction with a browser. The primary use-case is to detect abusive use. The distinction here is if I automate my own browser to do things for me on sites using my personal account may not be a problem for site owners, while a spam operation or reselling operation which generates thousands of false accounts using automation is a big problem that they'd want to be able to block. I think reCAPTCHA is tailored towards the latter, and for it not to block the former might be more of a feature than a bug.
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1. roguecoder ◴[25 Jun 25 18:12 UTC] No.44380246[source]▶
LinkedIn, for example, doesn't care if you as a human are manually looking at all your connections one-by-one or if you have automated a bot to do it: it will lock you out the same either way.