Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by jcoffland on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:14PM (#19156503)

A small percentage of bad actors using automaton can produce a lot of traffic. So although it may be true that a large portion of the requests coming from TOR exit nodes is malicious, it would be unwise to conclude that most users of TOR have bad intentions.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by kelnos on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:51PM (#19156869)

True, but from the perspective of an org like CloudFlare, that doesn't matter. They don't know (or care) about the user breakdown coming from Tor; they just know that the vast majority of traffic coming from it is malicious. And since part of the point of Tor is to make it hard to determine who's who, the good traffic gets binned with the bad.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by thfuran on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:51PM (#19156876)

I don't think anyone is concluding that.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by jcoffland on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:35AM (#19160280)

I think a lot of people come to exactly that conclusion.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by ChrisLomont on Thursday February 14, 2019 @06:14AM (#19161061)

Why would they? Most people cognizant of these terms knows a bot generates more traffic than a human; that’s the point of most bots.

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