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Yeah so this mouse movement astrology is going to completely lock non-sighted/keyboard only users out of large swaths of the Internet isn't it.

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I'm guessing it's going to lock the non-sighted//keyboard only users out of the anonymous Internet. I'm guessing if you log in and give up your anonymity they'll consider you not a bot.

If that's true, attackers just need to run their bots under registered throwaway accounts...

That's even worse

Why worry? Just send them a photo of your ID and you'll be fine. /s

I'd imagine that mouse movement is just one signal among many that's weighted appropriately, but I hope we get feedback from these users

I mean CF already forces 5 minutes of motorbike identification on anyone not in a whitelisted western country, so a small percentage of blind people is unlikely to worry them.

They don't do that, but they do force endless loops of checkbox ticking onto users from unwanted countries https://imgur.com/a/AzNSreV

Are you using Chromium? They block that - retry in Google Chrome.

You’re confusing us with Google. We don’t have a visual CAPTCHA.

Yeah, you just have spinners that keep refreshing the page and spinning when you're using Firefox or a mobile device that's neither on Android nor iOS.

Potato potato.


cmd+F mouse movement 3 result, 3/3: "Mouse movement is just one example of the signals Precursor evaluates"

just like how smartphone developers, engineers locked people with no smartphone.Some of the users that can no longer get services are really old people, disabled. In some well developed places on earth, you can't even check in flights without a smartphone, it's not even possible to travel for them.

Yet all people are ok with it




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