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 Message 2133 
 August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen 
 new captcha.. 
 12 Oct 24 09:39:00 
 
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Hello Wilfred!

 AA>> The actual site that triggered the captcha was https://
 AA>> www.caranddriver.com/ ..to a specific article. It doesn't
 AA>> seem to be doing that anymore right now.  Maybe the
 AA>> cookie system remembers me now.

 WvV> I clicked around a bit, but can't trigger it either...

OK.. here's what I think has happened.  I was reading a  
newsletter that ultimately would steer me to a story/site.   
But, before it did that, it would go through some intermediary  
(for tracking purposes?) ..that's were the captcha would  
appear, and THEN take me to the caranddriver article.

But I don't have the original newsletter with the initial  
synopis of the stories and links anymore.

I'd swear that when I was poking around the caranddriver site,  
the same press'n'hold showed up a couple more times.

Anyway.. it seems that the standard click-here-with-a-check- 
mark type captchas can be fooled with automation.  And this  
"press'n'hold" strategy is away to foil that?


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