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Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by valvar on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:37AM (#27659402)
Is the main purpose of these really to prove that you are human, or to improve their ML datasets?
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Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by rcxdude on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:59AM (#27659837)
Neither. Nowadays it is only one part of a large scoring system using a bunch of device and user fingerprinting, and it's primary use seems to be tarpitting bots who score low on the other metrics (as well as any users unfortunate or privacy-conscious enough to be misidentified as a bot).
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Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by 411111111111111 on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:59AM (#27659843)
I'm pretty sure that's sufficiently shown by the fact that captcha v3 doesn't even have any inputs.
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Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by prirai on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:24AM (#27659644)
Yeah, its actually for their dataset.
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Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by Razengan on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:29AM (#27659671)
Whichever saves/makes them more money.
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