Re:Blocking via an Unsolvable CAPTCHA
by squarefoot on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:36AM
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Same here. I'm starting to wonder if they're doing that on purpose to profile real users according to how fast they solve multiple captchas, say by measuring reaction times between every click on a "car", or to refine their anti bot algorithms by doing a deeper analysis of real user behavior.
Whatever their intentions are, it's frustrating.
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My guess is that most of the "automatic" stuff is done using cookies and other fingerprinting techniques. In safari I hit the longer captchas far more often than in chrome, and it is quite possible that it is because of the ad blocking tech inside.