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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by shawnz on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:13PM (#19158084)
I'd bet that the vast majority of botters/phishers which Facebook deals with are amateurs. That said, I meant using unusual user agent software, not really just having an unusual user agent string.
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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by HenryBemis on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:05PM (#19158779)
No need for software, one can easy change it on the about:config of Firefox and/or there are some cool add-ons that can rotate/change the user agent of a Firefox on the "desired frequency"
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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by adrianhel on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:05AM (#19160377)
We have a Wordpress site that suddenly saw a surge of hacking attempts. Turns out they all had IE7 user agents. Blocked that, not a problem anymore. Wouldn't surprise me if big sites use simple measures for such simple attack attempts as well.
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