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okay, that's reasonable.
by cJ0th 12y ago
okay, that's reasonable.
- ep103 12y agoThat's not reasonable, its yet another way google is monitoring everything I do online.
- cJ0th 12y agowell yes and no. In a way it is a win-win situation: It is reasonable in that it doesn't aggravate the situation for those who block cookies. (yet) And those that allow cookies get at least some convenience in return for that. However, looking from a different perspective you can say that they're taking advantage of people blind with greed who want maximum convenience when using the web.
- icebraining 12y agoWhat makes you think they weren't already monitoring?
- TallGuyShort 12y agoBut then a bot need only copy a human's mouse movements and disable cookies and we're back to the status quo.
- andylei 12y agoi'm sure no one at google thought about that
- TallGuyShort 12y agoThere's no call for sarcasm. Do you have more insight into what data could allow them to distinguish between bots and people? If you do please share, because the Wired article and Google's own marketing video don't provide much information - it's obviously more focused on marketing than the technology.
- jamespo 12y agowhy would google voluntarily give up that information?
- notatoad 12y agoSure, for the bot. Captchas are pretty effective against bots, what's wrong with presenting the status quo to a bot? This is meant to improve things for the real people. I will appreciate not having to decipher some strange text.
- TallGuyShort 12y agoI'm just not convinced from what's been shown that they'll have a long-term ability to distinguish between human mouse movements and those of a bot. So I'm curious as to really how one can keep this in place before it's overrun by spam and you need to make it more difficult anyway. More power to them if it works, but they're pretty light on details that inspire confidence, IMO.