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		ClassyJacket on June 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome The bot would just read the unfaded image from the DOM.

aoeusnth1 on June 11, 2019 [–]

> Clicking the image too early is a good signal that it’s a bot.

The fade in is actually a nice gesture to the human to show them that an image will be there soon, while still slowing them down to rate limit the bots.

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