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Would it be possible to serve a fake fingerprint that appears legitimate? Or even better mimic the finger print of real users who've visited a site you own for example?
yep, but it can get tricky. some projects worth checking out: https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra
Not a word on how describing and releasing this code is obviously unethical!? Captchas have a legitimate use to keep bots out.
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So you get a bit richer for less effort... but how do you think moderating legions of spam posts affects the lives of independent website owners, who just want to create communities around the things they love? Or indeed the users, who have to wade through trash invading their threads? Or other legitimate users, who now have to answer captchas from CloudFlare just to access their favourite websites? Ultimately this i…
I had no idea I'd see so many people rising in defense of bots and scammers.
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I had no idea I'd see so many people rising in defense of bots and scammers.
A lot of people on this website are directly responsible for making botting and scamming easier to pull off. It's kind of necessary for them to find justifications for them so they can sleep soundly.
The other one that comes to mind is anacap, which I view as fringe. I read the comment threads sometimes and it leaves me with the impression that I'm the only one that thinks Von Mises and Rothbard are a bit out there.
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Captchas are now useful to distinguish well-intentioned bots (they stop whenever they see captcha) from malicious ones, which solve them, but still behave a lot like bots. Well-intentional bots are first-class citizens
Wouldn’t a well-intentioned bot follow robots.txt anyway?
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Why do you do this? While I can appreciate the technical achievement, you know most users of forums and imageboards don’t want any AI content at all.
The percentage of captchas used to deter spam is probably a minority these days. A lot of captchas nowadays are used to prevent adversarial interoperability or the free flow of information. If you want to spam, you don't actually need to break many captchas. Just make your spam/scam/misinformation "engaging" enough and the social media platforms will host and promote your spam _for free_ and won't even ask a captcha.
But the rhetoric around the assumption that I was doing it for spammers was also interesting, as well as being more closely related to TFA!
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An article about 4chan from left media is something I won't read. Not a boomer, I can actually read 4chan anyways and make my own mind. Image related is unfortunate. Not uncommon for jannies and mods in any website to use their power to self serve. It happens even in more serious and regulated sites like wikipedia, so I'm not surprised by the lack of moderation neutrality in a meme site.
> Image related is unfortunate. Not uncommon for jannies and mods in any website to use their power to self serve. This isn't just a 1 off thing by rogue moderators is what I'm trying to point out. This is a constantly re-occurring thing. I also experienced the same issue multiple times until I got fed up with it and stopped posting there a few years ago. Their main moderator had a goal to make 4chan politically alig…
"Please wait for the timer or verify your email to post"
As a captcha
I used to get an ip block ban. But asking for my email to post in 4chan is just proof of how much it has changed.
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Ahh the good ole dilemma of selling your soul, you study what you love only to destroy it for profit. Like an entomologist hired by a pesticide company. I get it man, gotta make the bucks helping spammers advertise their shitty products, even if they destroy the internet.
What about the spammers that already destroyed the internet by steering it entirely towards advertising & surveillance capitalism? It's like the pot calling the kettle black. We're all complicit in the enshittification of the internet and technology in general, just that we delude ourselves into believing we're on the "good" side because we call it "advertising" or "marketing" or "analytics" instead of spam, more spa…
There's a difference between parasites that spam and make 1000 free gmail accounts. And Google.