Re:Updating our inactive account policies
by vore on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:41PM
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I am sure Google of all companies has enough insight into account behavior to conclude this is the case for them. It's not like they can't verify it either: if the account previously had legitimate activity and is now compromised, it's not really a sleeper account.
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Re:Updating our inactive account policies
by orbital-decay on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:50AM
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Bots, antidetect browsers, and residential proxies exist specifically to imitate the activity and circumvent fraud prevention systems like Google's. Most accounts get caught, but many slip under the certainty threshold. This is a cat and mouse game, and sometimes mouse wins by blending into the crowd.
With LLMs it suddenly became much easier. I suspect that the timing of this decision might be not random.