Yeah, I was thinking, wouldn't this be really easy to bot?
I had this sort of idea years ago for a Captcha method, and someone had mentioned this exact scenario.
Yes, and impossible for people to fill in. Therefore, whoever manages to find the band correctly must be a bot. Mission accomplished.
If you scroll to the download section you can see that the captcha check is completly client side. The bot won't even notice there's a captcha unless they're executing js.
It's 2015, bots use headless browsers.
exactly, this is the first thing that popped into my mind as well