• TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Does this mean that if I pretend to be a bot, I can access any cloudflare site ad-free?

      • br3d@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        “Prove you’re a bot by failing to click all the motorcycles in this image”

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        17 hours ago

        How large a number are we talking? This might be impossible for a computer as well considering this being a hard problem is effectively the basis for most encryption.

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          16 hours ago

          Similar to how ReCAPTCHA was meant to train neural networks for image recognition the anti bot protocol is used to train an autist to find an efficient factorisation algorithm.