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fooker | 5 days ago

Great, except most bots don't use the API directly. They look like normal users to the server for the most part.

Google has spent billions trying to distinguish bots from users. And has been largely unsuccessful n

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weirdmantis69|5 days ago

Seems like it would be relatively simple no? They control the app itself? Wouldn't it be trivial to put a signature to the app and see the typing speed, user actions, etc?

Jensson|5 days ago

Google is doing that, you know all those "I am not a robot" things? Those are made by google mostly and uses a lot of such signals. Its not just clicking the right things its also how you click etc.

The reason some of those just have a checkbox without a challenge is that they already are sure enough so how you move to click the box is enough then.

thunderfork|5 days ago

This would be about as trivial as it'd be for YouTube to block yt-dlp.