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I'm using a tablet device, thus no mouse, and it gives me a captcha whenever I'm not logged in..

Really is this the breakthrough of bot detection? They are just leveraging cookies --which is nice improv UX-- but why do I need to click? delay loading to relax servers?



Well, it's probably that most sites you get a captcha on, give one to everyone... this will only reduce that for real users.

On the flip side, there are other events to hook into... onfocus/onblur, keydown, etc, etc... which can all go into bot detection... if you fill out a form and didn't focus on anything, click on anything, or press any keys.. you're probably a bot... If you have JS disabled, you deserve what you get.




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