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The simplicity of it is logic defying. It used to be that you had to find crosswalks or move puzzle pieces or type blurred letters and numbers, but NOW all the sudden I can just click a box and HEY!, I'm human?

That's hardly the Turing Test I'd expected.

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[-] platypode@sh.itjust.works 192 points 2 months ago

It tests whether your mouse movement looks human--we're really bad at things like moving in straight lines, so it's pretty evident from a mouse movement log whether you're a human or a simple bot. It also takes a bunch of auxiliary browser/environment data into account. It's not perfect, but it's complicated enough to defeat to provide fine protection against cheap spam.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Interesting that my mouse movement is available to anyone who wants it.

It seems like a small step from that to accessing my keyboard.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

If loaded with pages didn't have access to keyboard events, you wouldn't be able to write comments on Lemmy posts. I'm not a front-end guy, but that should be limited to just white the browser is focused.

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