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it does, CF bans my own honest to God clicks if I do them too fast.
About five years ago, maybe more, Google started sending me captchas if I ran too many repetitive searches. I could be wrong, but it feel like most large platforms have fairly sophisticated anti-bot/scraping stuff in place.
Still slightly confused on what MCPs are but looking at this it does look useful
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> with a "browser MCP" it is now possible: ChatGPT has a way to tell your browser "open Google maps", "show me a screenshot", "click at that position", etc It seems strange to me to focus on this sort of standard well in advance of models being reliable enough to, ya know, actually be able perform these operations on behalf of the user with any sort of strong reliability that you would need for widespread adoption to…
I think MCPs compensate for the unreliability issue by providing a minimal and well defined interface to a controlled set of actions. That way, the llm doesn't have to be as reliable thinking what it needs to do and in acting, just in choosing what to do from a short list.
Believe me. It's not there yet.
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Agreed, I'd been working on a Google Sheets specific MCP last week – just got it published here: https://github.com/mkummer225/google-sheets-mcp
This is cool. You should submit this as a 'Show HN'. Also consider publishing it so people can use it without having to use git.
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About five years ago, maybe more, Google started sending me captchas if I ran too many repetitive searches. I could be wrong, but it feel like most large platforms have fairly sophisticated anti-bot/scraping stuff in place.
GitHub regularly blocks me for some reason. They tell me to slow down and I’m blocked for hours. I don’t get it.
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This is cool. You should submit this as a 'Show HN'. Also consider publishing it so people can use it without having to use git.
Publishing it where ? It can’t be a github page, it’s too complex; anything else incurs real costs.
{
"mcpServers": {
"ragdocs": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@qpd-v/mcp-server-ragdocs"
],
"env": {
"QDRANT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:6333",
"EMBEDDING_PROVIDER": "ollama",
"OLLAMA_URL": "http://localhost:11434"
}
},
}
}
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Modern captchas use a number of tools including many of the approaches you mentioned. This why you might sometimes see a CloudFlare "I am not a robot" checkbox that checks itself and moves along before you have much time to even react. It's looking at a number of signals to determine that you're probably human before you've even checked the box.
When I am using keyboard navigation, shortcuts and autofills, I seem to get mistaken for a bot a lot. These Captchas are really bad at detecting bots and really good at falsely labelling humans as bots.
Back when I was playing Call of Duty 4, I got routinely accused of cheating because some people didn't think it was possible to click the mouse button as fast as I did.
To them it looked like I had some auto-trigger bot or Xbox controller.
I did in fact just have a good mouse and a quick finger.
When I go to a shopping website I want to be able to tell my browser "hey please go through all the sideboards on this list and filter out for the ones that are larger than 155cm and smaller than 100cm, prioritise the ones with dark wood and space for vinyl records which are 31.43cm tall" for example. Is there any browser that can do this yet as it seems extremely useful to be able to extract details from the page!
Hey, we’re working on MatterRank which is pretty similar to this but currently works on web search. (e.g. I want to prioritize results that talk about X and have Y bias and I want to deprioritize those that are trying to sell me something). Feel free to try it out at https://matterrank.ai Would also be interested in hearing more about what you’re envisioning for your use case. Are you thinking a browser extension tha…
Example: find me all of the desks on IKEA that come in light coloured wood, are 55 inches wide, and rank them from deepest to shallowest. Oh, and make sure they're in stock at my nearest IKEA, or are delivering within the next week.
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I think MCPs compensate for the unreliability issue by providing a minimal and well defined interface to a controlled set of actions. That way, the llm doesn't have to be as reliable thinking what it needs to do and in acting, just in choosing what to do from a short list.
You can provide an MCP for Pokemon Red, but Claude will still flounder for weeks, making absurd mistakes on a game literally designed for children. Believe me. It's not there yet.