this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The "puzzle" isn't the test, the test uses your browser history, mouse activity, etc to identify you as human (or not). The puzzle is used to generate training data for ML models.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Lol, well maybe not your browser history. That would be bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure with a modern captcha framework that would be true. In this case, this looks like something that was custom rolled for their site so its pretty unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh, true, I didn't look too close.