Re:Automation and the Use of Multiple Accounts
by icebraining on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:14AM
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They could easily detect and ban accounts that failed 95% of captchas, though.
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Re:Automation and the Use of Multiple Accounts
by tedivm on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:38PM
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The captcha tends to be during signup, not just any general request. Otherwise third party clients wouldn't work at all. So there isn't any "account" with 95% failure, only IP addresses that fit that. However, spreading requests to multiple IP addresses can help get around that, and botnet rental is pretty cheap these days (cheaper than the captcha prices that have been quoted).
Re:Automation and the Use of Multiple Accounts
by icebraining on Thursday February 22, 2018 @04:00PM
(#16441348)
The captcha tends to be during signup, not just any general request. Otherwise third party clients wouldn't work at all
The post that started this thread was about thought experiment of Twitter killing off their API. So that third party clients wouldn't work is a given. And since they wouldn't work, there's no reason why Twitter couldn't show a captcha many more times after signup.