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 enriquto on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:01PM (#19156946)

> Google isn't going out of their way to punish you for trying to protect your privacy. They're trying to stop unwanted traffic. By unfortunate happenstance, (...)

This does not agree with my experience. I browse without cookies and severely limited javascript (using umatrix), and I also encounter the myriad of ridiculous inconveniences that the OP was referring to. On the good side, however, the web is much faster and generally less annoying.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by asdfasgasdgasdg on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:06PM (#19156989)

> I browse without cookies and severely limited javascript (using umatrix), and I also encounter the myriad of ridiculous inconveniences that the OP was referring to.

Isn't this also something that many bots do (don't run javascript and don't have realistic cookies)? It seems like just another instance of reducing your distance from the "bot" cluster in agent-space.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by Kalium on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:22PM (#19157144)

These are exactly the kinds of behaviors that bots sometimes engage in.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by everdrive on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:25PM (#19157187)

It's often the website provider redirecting users to a captcha based on certain conditions.

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