Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
by kuschku on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @09:02PM
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Which is a bad idea.
I actually have some bots which scrape Google sites (for the purpose of integrating stuff like Google Keep into KRunner), and they just use the Useragent of a regular phone, send normal POST data, etc. Works perfectly fine, and — I just checked — this bot is recognized as normal user by this captcha system. No Captcha input.
I tried it even with a new Google profile and just using cURL to log into Google, then started a new browser session and imported the cookies from cURL. Worked just as well.
I guess this makes it easier for malicious bot-authors...
I actually have some bots which scrape Google sites (for the purpose of integrating stuff like Google Keep into KRunner), and they just use the Useragent of a regular phone, send normal POST data, etc. Works perfectly fine, and — I just checked — this bot is recognized as normal user by this captcha system. No Captcha input.
I tried it even with a new Google profile and just using cURL to log into Google, then started a new browser session and imported the cookies from cURL. Worked just as well.
I guess this makes it easier for malicious bot-authors...