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[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

They were used as example heuristics by Google marketing when they launched the checkbox reCaptcha. They were just simple to understand things for marketing purposes, but in reality Google checks many different signals and isn't based on mouse movements. But people keep repeating the example from the ad.