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The simplicity of it is logic defying. It used to be that you had to find crosswalks or move puzzle pieces or type blurred letters and numbers, but NOW all the sudden I can just click a box and HEY!, I'm human?
That's hardly the Turing Test I'd expected.
Cloudflare knows almost everything done from your IP address because they're used by the majority of websites. And some websites are using a cloudflare signed TLS certificate so if cloudflare wants, can see the content of the communication instead of an encrypted package
So they know if you have a human behavior (visiting many different websites at human speed and having rests during sleeping time) or if you have a bot behavior (sending millions of requests to the same endpoint at superhuman speeds)
I'd argue that the certificate authority does not have the ability to decrypt your communication because of the nature of private and public key mechanism during the whole TLS certificate procedure. You do not send your web servers private key to cloudflare when requesting a certificate.
That would actually be pretty wild...
Other then that you're probably right.
There's a default setting that allows unencrypted communication between the server and cloudflare. So they receive unencrypted data, sign with their certificate. Or send with self signed certificate, they decrypt and reencrypt. Or for some reason can download and import on the server their own internal use certificate.
You're right, forgot that you can just not encrypt on your servers end and use cloudflare to do that for you, especially when used as CDN
thx, TIL
These type of βcaptchasβ look at your browsing behavior. It is sort of a βtrade secretβ of what it looks for, but it might be screen resolution, mouse behavior, cookies, OS, time to click, etc. Anything a website has access to that would look different from a bot.
Yes, and it gives you (or the bot), a score.
If you don't meet the score, is highly likely that you are a bot.
You can have a superficial an yet interesting read on the topic on the Google re-captch dev docs.
Is it bad that I've failed the score multiple times?
It is likely you are a bot, and then you get one it these regular captchas and the that will increase your score if you succeed.*
I'm pretty sure I'm a robot since they often force me to select the motorcycle from a picture that is just one motor cycle. If I select every part of it I fail every time. Same thing with street lights and fire plugs.
"this is not CAPTCHA! It's just clicking, with style"
I often wonder if that's a fail or just some tech sitting in a room saying "Now do THIS!" and pressing refresh over and over.
That's it
This all humans will be good for in the future, until they atrophy and become a mere appendage of machinegod.
I saw the movie. Unhappy ending.
Which movie is that ? While waiting your reply I asked chatgpt
Please write movie script where humans continue to evolve in an environment where their reproduction and evolution is mediated entirely by the solvibg of captchas. They have become one with machinegod, just a vestigial appendage so scratch an itch that the machine cannot satisfy any other way.
https://chatgpt.com/share/fae8c7fc-df78-462e-9922-9d976a182bd8
Beats me. I have a script that clicks all those boxes for me.
Yo based
it also sees your mouse movements on your way to that box.
But I use my phone.
Then it smells you from the microphone on your phone
Damn, I thought I was being stealthy by farting silently like an assassin...