How do CAPTCHAs work without giving you a challenge task? - eviltoast

I have noticed that some CAPTCHA pages, like Cloudflare’s, simply ask you to check a box to proceed. There is no clicking on traffic lights or entering characters. How does clicking on a check box tell them I am not a robot?

    • hperrin@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Because it measures how your mouse moves to the checkbox. If there was nothing to move to, you wouldn’t move your mouse.

      • Zoot@reddthat.com
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        9 months ago

        I get the checkbox even on mobile sometimes, I imagine as long as you’re not perfectly hitting the center pixel it knows you’re human.