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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Thu Oct 10 20:26:00 2024

    [ Photo ]
    a new kind of captcha.. "press and hold". i guess the single
    "click if you are human" has been foiled.

    https://ibb.co/HtFXvcv




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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to August Abolins on Fri Oct 11 10:47:23 2024
    Hi August,

    On 2024-10-10 20:26:00, you wrote to All:

    [ Photo ]
    a new kind of captcha.. "press and hold". i guess the single
    "click if you are human" has been foiled.

    https://ibb.co/HtFXvcv

    I tried it, nothing seems to be happening...


    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Dennis Slagers@2:280/2060 to Wilfred van Velzen on Fri Oct 11 14:29:04 2024

    Hello Wilfred!

    11 Oct 24 10:47, you wrote to August Abolins:

    [ Photo ]
    a new kind of captcha.. "press and hold". i guess the single
    "click if you are human" has been foiled.

    https://ibb.co/HtFXvcv

    I tried it, nothing seems to be happening...
    imgbb .. so just an image hoster ..

    Dennis


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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Dennis Slagers on Fri Oct 11 14:43:11 2024
    Hi Dennis,

    On 2024-10-11 14:29:04, you wrote to me:

    [ Photo ]
    a new kind of captcha.. "press and hold". i guess the single
    "click if you are human" has been foiled.

    https://ibb.co/HtFXvcv

    I tried it, nothing seems to be happening...
    imgbb .. so just an image hoster ..

    Hmmm, indeed, it fooled me. :-( ;-)


    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Wilfred van Velzen on Fri Oct 11 20:12:00 2024
    Hello Wilfred!

    https://ibb.co/HtFXvcv

    I tried it, nothing seems to be happening...


    Maybe you are blocking too much at the ibb.co site?

    But, I was just posting an image of the captcha prompt/system
    to illustrate what I encountered.

    The actual site that triggered the captcha was
    https://www.caranddriver.com/ ..to a specific article. It
    doesn't seem to be doing that anymore right now. Maybe the
    cookie system remembers me now.


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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to August Abolins on Sat Oct 12 11:30:32 2024
    Hi August,

    On 2024-10-11 20:12:00, you wrote to me:

    https://ibb.co/HtFXvcv

    I tried it, nothing seems to be happening...

    But, I was just posting an image of the captcha prompt/system
    to illustrate what I encountered.

    Yeah, you fooled me there. :-( ;-)

    The actual site that triggered the captcha was https://www.caranddriver.com/ ..to a specific article. It
    doesn't seem to be doing that anymore right now. Maybe the
    cookie system remembers me now.

    I clicked around a bit, but can't trigger it either...


    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sat Oct 12 09:39:00 2024
    Hello Wilfred!

    The actual site that triggered the captcha was https://
    www.caranddriver.com/ ..to a specific article. It doesn't
    seem to be doing that anymore right now. Maybe the
    cookie system remembers me now.

    I clicked around a bit, but can't trigger it either...

    OK.. here's what I think has happened. I was reading a
    newsletter that ultimately would steer me to a story/site.
    But, before it did that, it would go through some intermediary
    (for tracking purposes?) ..that's were the captcha would
    appear, and THEN take me to the caranddriver article.

    But I don't have the original newsletter with the initial
    synopis of the stories and links anymore.

    I'd swear that when I was poking around the caranddriver site,
    the same press'n'hold showed up a couple more times.

    Anyway.. it seems that the standard click-here-with-a-check-
    mark type captchas can be fooled with automation. And this
    "press'n'hold" strategy is away to foil that?


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  • From Ken Nischan@1:275/89 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sat Oct 26 08:00:59 2024
    Re: Re: new captcha..
    By: Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins on Fri Oct 11 2024 10:47 am

    Hi August,

    On 2024-10-10 20:26:00, you wrote to All:

    [ Photo ]
    a new kind of captcha.. "press and hold". i guess the single
    "click if you are human" has been foiled.

    https://ibb.co/HtFXvcv

    I tried it, nothing seems to be happening...


    Bye, Wilfred.

    Wow, that's a rough way to find out that while you thought you were human all this time, you're actually a robot. My condolences :D
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