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What about clicking a checkbox means I'm human? How does Cloudflare determine I'm human from that? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I kinda think your browser makes sure you at least click before websites are allowed tracking things like your cursor.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the clicking is rather the part where you agree to allow your history to be checked, essentially.

Sorry for linking Reddit, but... https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/Ws3Mr45qFV

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Here, I got you: https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/askscience/s/Ws3Mr45qFV

Interesting that it works so well for Tor Browser, given that there's not much information to collect. Just the proof of work might be enough there.