Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”

Post by 001sky » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 5:49 PM UTC

xtracto wrote: post #178

userbinator wrote: post #170

"If we can collect behavioural data from you, and it matches closely the behaviour of other humans, you are a human. Otherwise you're not a human." Does anyone else get that feeling from the description of what Google is doing? I've tripped their "we think you are a bot" detection filter and been presented with a captcha countless times while using complex search queries and searching for relatively obscure things, a…

> and it's frankly very insulting and rather disturbing that they think someone who inputs "unusual" search queries, according to their measure, is not human. Insulting? how is that insulting? You are entitled. You are entitled you block scripts, use Google's FREE service to perform any search query to search the web while blocking any program that attempts to identify you as not a bot. But if while using their free…

Post by TimJRobinson » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 5:49 PM UTC

lnanek2 wrote: post #165

username223 wrote: post #125

My guess is it's based on the tracking data they already collect on most people. I try to avoid it, so I get stuff like this: http://i.imgur.com/6mGYsav.png I have no idea what that second word is supposed to be, so if you use this, I probably won't use your site.

It isn't user friendly, but often with that type it doesn't care what you enter for the tough to read world. The easy to read word is your test. The other is a way to harness people to do difficult OCR tasks. Some web sites have had fun organizing entering dirty words for the tough to read ones regularly to mess with the results :)

Post by natch » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

Post by muyuu » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

yclept wrote: post #186

userbinator wrote: post #170

"If we can collect behavioural data from you, and it matches closely the behaviour of other humans, you are a human. Otherwise you're not a human." Does anyone else get that feeling from the description of what Google is doing? I've tripped their "we think you are a bot" detection filter and been presented with a captcha countless times while using complex search queries and searching for relatively obscure things, a…

Why shouldn't us bots be able to search or participate in forums?

Post by tunap » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 5:58 PM UTC

ifdefdebug wrote: post #194

echeese wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure where cursor movement was mentioned, other than the comments.

I read it in the wired.com article about this also submitted to HN: "And [Vinay] Shet says even the tiny movements a user’s mouse makes as it hovers and approaches a checkbox can help reveal an automated bot."