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Why would you care whether a user is a robot? Surely whether the actions of that user are desirable or not is determined solely by those actions and not whether
by jules 12y ago
Why would you care whether a user is a robot? Surely whether the actions of that user are desirable or not is determined solely by those actions and not whether the thing performing the actions is a human or a robot. It seems like a better idea to disallow bad actions than to disallow robots. There are also people farms who solve captchas (e.g. via porn sites who ask you to solve a captcha which they then input to another site, or by paying people $1 to solve X thousand capchas).
- willlma 12y agoRobots don't buy stuff. Their actions by definition are undesirable from the service provider's standpoint.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoUnless its a arbitrage robot!
- jules 12y agoThen limit the access of everyone who does not buy stuff to X requests per minute?
- newuser88273 12y agoBecause your dual business model is (1) showing ads to humans and (2) gathering intel on humans. Bots can be used to bypass both.