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Captchas are now useful to distinguish well-intentioned bots (they stop whenever they see captcha) from malicious ones, which solve them, but still behave a lot
by hamilyon2 2y ago
Captchas are now useful to distinguish well-intentioned bots (they stop whenever they see captcha) from malicious ones, which solve them, but still behave a lot like bots.
Well-intentional bots are first-class citizens
- brookst 2y agoWouldn’t a well-intentioned bot follow robots.txt anyway?
- hamilyon2 2y agoCurl and libcurl doesn't. Wget doesn't, I think.
- account42 2y agoCURL isn't a bot, it's a tool. It can be part of a bot (which may or may not respect robots.txt) but it can also just act as a user agent directly for a human operator in which case it SHOULD just do what asked. Chrome doesn't follow robots.txt either for the same reason.
- lostlogin 2y agoDo you complete the circle and do the good bot bad bot classification with a mod bot?