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I think there is a space for an "ublock origin" type of extension that blocks bots.

It would first start with twitter, flagging "likely a bot". Then once it gets good enougth, just hide bot tweets.

If it becomes popular enough, you can extend it to reddit, imgur, insta, facebook, etc.

This will feed the system with a lot of data, espacially usernames, emails, accounts, and IP, plus a graph of all that, that we can cross reference to detect even more bots.

Now for the ultimate goal: hide comments from bots on shopping websites, starting with amazon.

It would become a killer product.




Finally a bot that can administer the Turing test.




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