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Inspired by these discussions I wanted to play with ChatGPT. First Coudflare tells me it needs to check "whether I am human", sounds suspiciously like a Turing
by usr1106 4y ago
Inspired by these discussions I wanted to play with ChatGPT. First Coudflare tells me it needs to check "whether I am human", sounds suspiciously like a Turing test :) (I know they don't even try to perform one.) Ironically on this mobile phone their test fails and they don't let me in even after a dozen attempts.
(The hardware was made for the Indian market many years ago, so it is not very performant by today's measures. The software is a rather old Firefox, with Javascript, cookies, storage and everything. No idea how they come to the conclusion I would be a bot.)
- runnerup 4y agoThe old Firefox is a pretty big signal for anti-bot filters. They can generally figure out what hardware you’re on via canvas fingerprinting. Also IPv6 is generally downrated as well. Essentially, if your fingerprint looks different from what they’ve explicitly whitelisted, it’s a strong chance they’ll think you’re a bot.
- usr1106 4y agoDownrating IPv6? I thought most IPv6 users are mobile and phones don't look like an ideal bot platform to me. Either way I use this phone via WLAN and my obsolete ADSL, so definitely no IPv6, the provider has not invested anything for years and announced shutdown several times.