On: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

[joshuamorton]

You've now forced spammers to purchase webcams. And write code or whatever to make realistic mouse movements. This is expensive. Whatever they're doing likely isn't worth it anymore.

[cr0sh → joshuamorton]

fake-users-as-a-service business op?

I can see it being possible - racks of "robot arms" that move mice based on whatever criteria is needed (in this case, reCaptcha).

It works for 3D printing, as well as device testing - so in theory, this could be done too...

[brokenmachine → cr0sh]

I don't get why you'd need a physical robot arm? Just have a usb device that simulates the mouse movements. Or just software to move the mouse virtually.

[noir_lord → brokenmachine]

You don’t, you wouldn’t even need a webcam, you could just splice into the video signal at output and interpret it directly (much as the HDCP bypasses do).

[mike_hearn → cr0sh]

https://buyaccs.com/

It exists for a long time already.

[noir_lord → cr0sh]

Have the ‘AI’ solved the I’m not a robot and kick the street view stuff to a human.

It’s always going to be an arms race I guess.