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Sorry if the article mentioned it (i only read the first few paragraphs) but looking at the cat click, that looks like a great way to generate training data for AI.
I recently added recaptcha to a site and got this version. From an implementation standpoint it is utterly painless. The client side is copy/paste from Google's site and the PHP/server side was this: $recapchaURL = 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret=600SZZ0ZZZZZIZi-ZZ0ZEHZW1000Z_0ZZZ00QZZ&response=' . request_var('g-recaptcha-response','') .'&remoteip=' . $request->server('REMOTE_ADDR'); $recapch…
will GUI automation tools be able to surpass this?
It probably uses a LOT more info than only the mouse move/mouse click. Remember, google tracking is embedded in probably 99% of websites you visit so from your ip, cookies, tracking, logged in Google profile, etc... they're able to know if you're a human or not.
Does this mean WordPress saw an 60% decrease in traffic from bots?
It seems plausible that as more sites adopt this kind of technology, automated web access (e.g. scraping) the web will become harder -- for whatever purpose, good or ill. This has long been an "arms race" between hiding and detection. I can hope that reasonable uses of automation still remain feasible.