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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by onlyrealcuzzo on Friday November 22, 2019 @11:59AM (#21607423)
I wrote a chrome headless framework that types using semi-realistic key presses (timing, mistakes, corrections) and does semi-realistic scrolling / swiping and clicking / tapping.

It's not very hard to get something that would be too hard for almost every website beside Google and Facebook to bother with. If it's a 1 on a 0-9 scale in difficulty, most websites just don't have the resources to detect it

It took me like ~3 hours to write it, but I guarantee it would take months for someone to detect it, and even then, they'd have a lot of false positives and negatives.

Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by zer0tonin on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:10PM (#21607540)
I think there's also a lot of bot-detection-as-a-service around here that can be used by sites smaller than Google and Facebook, like WhiteOps or IAS anti-fraud.
Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by mschuster91 on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:44PM (#21608597)
These are highly questionable under GDPR, many of them rely on tracking users wherever they go (e.g. Recaptcha is known for this).
Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by 77pt77 on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:03PM (#21611931)
> These are highly questionable under GDPR

How many fines has GDPR resulted in?

Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by mschuster91 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @06:48PM (#21624356)
Not many yet, general consensus is to first warn and get companies to implement better compliance - only those who really openly shit on GDPR get the fines.
Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by 1996 on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:48PM (#21607972)
then release it!

Headless chrome cat and mouse game is a lot of fun. We need more players.