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I use a keyboard-driven browser to reduce wrist strain, and I sometimes get tagged as a bot, probably for lack of mouse movement.
by forgotmypw 7y ago
I use a keyboard-driven browser to reduce wrist strain, and I sometimes get tagged as a bot, probably for lack of mouse movement.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agobasically I've written bots for scraping governmental sites, and fashion sites. I've never yet had a problem (although the code on one fashion site looked like all classes were randomly generated with implied some attempt to keep scraping from working), so what I'm wondering is - what kinds of sites actually go through the trouble of tagging you as a bot, since you've got experience care to share?
- edoceo 7y agoTicketmaster
- MonkeyIsNull 7y agoGood response, I definitely never though of that before. Serious case where you don't want Bots buying stuff up.
- edoceo 7y agoAges ago I was one of those bots. Most fun I've had playing cat-and-mouse. Their team was actually quite good. And I learned that Perl can solve any problem.
- GrayTextIsTruth 7y agoHave you written about this? Sounds like an entertaining story.
- edoceo 7y agoI have not. But I will and will post to HN.
- forgotmypw 7y agoYandex Search does it to me regularly. Sometimes it takes 5 attempts to get through the captchas.