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Why can't I just run headless chrome of firefox and have my bot click it there? "Aha here it is, so I click using system 'fake' mouse click". where's the catch?

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The script can detect the difference between real Chrome and headless Chrome.

Point a webcam at the screen and wire a mouse to the computer controlling the webcam, you'd have to simulate the computer moving the mouse like a human would but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Because humans still get the picture selection prompts, so you'd have to write code good enough to read the prompt and then select the appropriate images.

You've now forced spammers to purchase webcams. And write code or whatever to make realistic mouse movements. This is expensive. Whatever they're doing likely isn't worth it anymore.

fake-users-as-a-service business op?

I can see it being possible - racks of "robot arms" that move mice based on whatever criteria is needed (in this case, reCaptcha).

It works for 3D printing, as well as device testing - so in theory, this could be done too...

Have the ‘AI’ solved the I’m not a robot and kick the street view stuff to a human.

It’s always going to be an arms race I guess.

https://buyaccs.com/

It exists for a long time already.

I don't get why you'd need a physical robot arm? Just have a usb device that simulates the mouse movements. Or just software to move the mouse virtually.

You don’t, you wouldn’t even need a webcam, you could just splice into the video signal at output and interpret it directly (much as the HDCP bypasses do).

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