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#3398501 30-Jul-2025 21:33

amanzi:

That example you gave, also gives me the "are you human" check.

Me too. Interstingly several other CF sites I use don't do this check. Perhaps site owner configures CF this way -- I can't recall specifics but there are certain sites I see more of this on than others.

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#3398503 30-Jul-2025 21:38

Ge0rge:

How does that work?

They will be building their collection of user agent/browser fingerprints and perhaps combine that with user activity heat mapping?

Supposedly banking websites now utilise key stroke speed and mouse scroll / heat maps monitoring to detect suspicious activity.

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#3398509 30-Jul-2025 21:52

yitz:

notesgnome:

Do you know if you really are human or just a super AI system that thinks it's human?

OP just needs to take off his sunnies 😎😛

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#3398513 30-Jul-2025 22:26

Generally a waste of time now, it's fairly cheap/trivial to fire up playwright/cypress/selenium/capsolver to solve the whatever challenge is presented, so no reason why an AI model can't write/execute the code to do that with the right training/prompts.

It's an arms race and the captcha providers can't/won't win.

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#3398743 31-Jul-2025 15:28

amanzi:

I suspect this is to combat the huge increases in bots/crawlers recently.

That example you gave, also gives me the "are you human" check.

Some sites are being hammered by what’s suspected to be AI content slurps but they might fail for some reason or another then keep trying resulting in hundreds+ of queries a second.

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#3398750 31-Jul-2025 15:40

I have also had a whole lot more of them at home, but it seemed to be the change from voyager to quic that set it off. I am guessing my new static is in a range that has a worse reputation or shady neighbours.

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#3398929 31-Jul-2025 22:35

MadEngineer:

Some sites are being hammered by what’s suspected to be AI content slurps but they might fail for some reason or another then keep trying resulting in hundreds+ of queries a second.

So easy to put a free WAF in front like Cloudflare, AWS Cloudfront etc and apply some basic rate limits these days.

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#3398939 31-Jul-2025 23:23

Ragnor:

MadEngineer:

Some sites are being hammered by what’s suspected to be AI content slurps but they might fail for some reason or another then keep trying resulting in hundreds+ of queries a second.

So easy to put a free WAF in front like Cloudflare, AWS Cloudfront etc and apply some basic rate limits these days.

WAF - not sure my Wife would agree 😉

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#3399480 3-Aug-2025 10:35

Been happening a lot for me too.
I figure its just websites battling AI training crawlers.

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