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Why can't I just run headless chrome of firefox and have my bot click it there? "Aha here it is, so I click using system 'fake' mouse click". where's the catch?
by hexo 8y ago
Why can't I just run headless chrome of firefox and have my bot click it there? "Aha here it is, so I click using system 'fake' mouse click". where's the catch?
- wmf 8y agoThe script can detect the difference between real Chrome and headless Chrome.
- noir_lord 8y agoPoint a webcam at the screen and wire a mouse to the computer controlling the webcam, you'd have to simulate the computer moving the mouse like a human would but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
- eseehausen 8y agoBecause humans still get the picture selection prompts, so you'd have to write code good enough to read the prompt and then select the appropriate images.
- joshuamorton 8y agoYou've now forced spammers to purchase webcams. And write code or whatever to make realistic mouse movements. This is expensive. Whatever they're doing likely isn't worth it anymore.
- cr0sh 8y agofake-users-as-a-service business op? I can see it being possible - racks of "robot arms" that move mice based on whatever criteria is needed (in this case, reCaptcha). It works for 3D printing, as well as device testing - so in theory, this could be done too...
- noir_lord 8y agoHave the ‘AI’ solved the I’m not a robot and kick the street view stuff to a human. It’s always going to be an arms race I guess.
- mike_hearn 8y agohttps://buyaccs.com/ https://buyaccs.com/ It exists for a long time already.
- brokenmachine 8y agoI don't get why you'd need a physical robot arm? Just have a usb device that simulates the mouse movements. Or just software to move the mouse virtually.
- noir_lord 8y agoYou don’t, you wouldn’t even need a webcam, you could just splice into the video signal at output and interpret it directly (much as the HDCP bypasses do).