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Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by immibis on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:35PM (#43213318)
Note that Google's version of this was determined to be checking whether you had a 9-day-old tracking cookie.

The researcher who discovered this was able to generate 60,000 "I am not a bot" cookies per day, and use them up about 15 times each in a bot before it started getting captchas.

That was in 2016 though.

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Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by rixed on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:01AM (#43216698)
Couldn't the content of that cookie be used to validate its actual age? Like, just signing the date of generation?
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Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by gruez on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:48AM (#43219699)
...or generate a bunch and wait 9 days?
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Re:AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – l... by immibis on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:09PM (#43224241)
That's probably what it was. So they accessed some page over and over, pretending to not have the cookie yet, got a bunch of cookies, and 9 days later, used them to bypass captchas.
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