What stops the robot from clicking the I’m not a robot button?
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Nothing. Bots can easily click it it. The thing is, while it looks like a simple button, it’s actually tracking a number of things about you from the moment you load the page. Your mouse movements, your typing, and even things like your browser version and your IP address. It tallies up all of those pieces of data and uses that to decide if you’re a bot or not.
If it thinks you look human enough, it lets you through without any fuss. If, however, you look too bot-like it will make you answer those image challenges where you have to click the pictures of cars or stoplights or whatever. (All of which are extremely difficult for AI’s to reliably answer, precisely because Google uses images that its own experimental AIs have trouble with)
As a practical example, the biggest downside of using a VPN to protect my privacy is that I *always* get those image challenges. Since my VPN gets used by a lot of people (including plenty of bots, no doubt), the system always flags me as “might be a bot”.
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