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But couldn't I put: youremail@gmail.com fakeemail-1@gmail.com .... fakeemail-499@gmail.com

• gk1 11y ago
  I should've been more specific. Twitter requires a list of 500 _recognized_ emails.
  • ceejayoz 11y ago
    What's stopping me from setting up 500 recognized emails?
    • kristofferR 11y ago
      For this Google offering they're likely to use the same tech that powers their new CAPTCHA-less reCaptcha.
      • ceejayoz 11y ago
        Which is trivially broken by having real people simulate a bunch of real Gmail accounts. Services like this already exist for Facebook likes, YouTube views, etc.
      • kuschku 11y ago
        Which is (a) cheaply broken by hiring a few hundred bored students, and (b) is also even possible to be broken analytically. It is actually easier to break than the highest level of the previous captcha, as now you just need a Google account with semi-normal activity and a JS runtime that pretends to be a normal browser. The semi-normal activity is simple to be possible by running it as a bot and feeding it with search queries for 8h a day, running a query every few minutes. Which, in turn, gets the account marked as active.
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