XPost: alt.computer.workshop, alt.windows7.general   
   From: schugo@schugo.de   
      
   On 25.12.2025 12:10, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > On 2025/12/25 0:22:37, Schugo wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Yes, but I'm pretty sure I've been let in even if I deliberately don't   
   > move it at all.   
   >   
   >>>>   
   >>> what a dirty trick   
   >>   
   >> IIRC some agentic AI browsers can already solve that CAPTCHA... LOL   
   >>   
   >> ciao..   
   >>   
   > I'd be most surprised if not. (Even without having the reason to bypass   
   > it, if I was an AI programmer I'd just see it as a challenge.)   
      
   the captchas of the future will only let you past if you fail   
      
   ciao..   
      
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