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inigyoutoday at 10:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

A fun fact about Google captchas: they've often decided whether you will succeed or fail the captcha before you do the captcha.


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zahllostoday at 2:55 PM

I implemented something similar for my bot defences. If headless chrome is detected you still get the same anubis-style PoW but even if you submit the right answer you get rejected.

RickHulltoday at 11:43 AM

This seems nonsensical. Care to elaborate?

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