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I'm thinking the same thing. Especially since it uses this quoted text thing, just write your spambot to look for those anchors and extract and OCR the inner t
by ihumanable 16y ago
I'm thinking the same thing. Especially since it uses this quoted text thing, just write your spambot to look for those anchors and extract and OCR the inner text, done.
It's a clever idea and maybe in the short article they couldn't fully explain how this works to defeat spam bots. I'd like to know more about it from a tech and sec perspective.
- revdinosaur 16y agoIn theory they could prompt advertisers to create distorted ads, simply requiring users to visually decode the brand name.
- pietrofmaggi 16y agoYes, but how many ads can you have? or you automatically generates a ton of variation of the same ads otherwise a spammer can just keep a dictionary with the ads images and the correct answer.
- IgorPartola 16y agoBetter yet, build up a list of quotes organized by the brand. How many taglines can Toyota have? So even if the quoted text is obfuscated differently each time (new font, new noise), you can teach your bot to recognize the company logo and try one of the few taglines they have.