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Re:Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the ... by lucb1e on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:50PM (#44380659)
> but [PoWs] still rely on accurate bot detection.

No they don't, that's the point: you can serve everyone a PoW and don't have to discriminate and ban real people. This system you're enthusiastic about is what tries to do this "accurate bot detection" (scratch the first word)

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Re:Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the ... by vhcr on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @03:01PM (#44380773)
The default policy of anubis tries to detect bots and changes the difficulty of the proof of work based on that.

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/data/botPolici...

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Re:Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the ... by lucb1e on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @03:03PM (#44380798)
Oh... that I regularly see these pages working on a challenge probably says something about my humanness
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