XPost: alt.computer.workshop, alt.windows7.general   
   From: schugo@schugo.de   
      
   On 25.12.2025 01:04, % wrote:   
   > Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >> On Dec 24, 2025 at 12:15:52 PM MST, ""J. P. Gilliver"" wrote   
   >> <10ihe58$nis2$9@dont-email.me>:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2025/12/24 17:4:43, VanguardLH wrote:   
   >>>> "J. P. Gilliver"  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> ... on some others I get the "please wait while we check you're a   
   >>>>> human", or similar wording, from cloudflare, which then connects me   
   >>>>> to those sites after a few seconds.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Those, even if only a checkbox you click, are looking for behaviors   
   >>>> (events) exhibited by humans visiting a web site versus bots or web   
   >>>> crawlers trying to harvest content, or zombied hosts attempting DDOS   
   >>>> (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.  The site assaults their good   
   >>>> visitors with anti-bot/DDOS/webcrawl filtering.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Their CAPTCHA could be a simple checkbox you click, and they'll notice   
   >>>> it takes you time to move your mouse to click on it versus a bot that   
   >>>> instantly clicks on the checkbox.  Could be "match the tiles" on some   
   >>>> common theme, like all tiles with bicycles, or you drag a tile to fill   
   >>>> in a jigsaw picture, or you solve a math formula.  The site assaults you   
   >>>> with interferrence trying to protect themself from bots, web crawlers,   
   >>>> and DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.  They're hoping to   
   >>>> protect their site to keep it responsive to real visitors by   
   >>>> interferring with accessing the site by bots, but it is interferrence to   
   >>>> their good visitors, too.  In effect, it is a weak form of requiring all   
   >>>> visitors to login before the site delivers its content.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sometimes they're a "pick the pictures" (often with an American word,   
   >>> like "crosswalk"), sometimes they're just a tickbox (where yes, they can   
   >>> track your mouse); sometimes, they don't require you to do _anything_,   
   >>> they just "decide" you're human after a few seconds. Not sure how they   
   >>> can use your action - or lack thereof! - to decide how human you are.   
   >>   
   >> They look to see if you are moving the mouse pointer in a human-like way.   
   >>   
   > what a dirty trick   
      
   IIRC some agentic AI browsers can already solve that CAPTCHA... LOL   
      
   ciao..   
      
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