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I've actually noticed this in some websites the past ~two months. It's neat to have a captcha that finally doesn't need slowly clicking images to pass through.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bots definitely can check a box, and they can even mimic the erratic path of human mouse movement

Damn I didn't know that was being tracked too

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever clicked a captcha and it's just checked itself off for you?

That's because your page use behaviour looked human enough it wasn't worth the robot test

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It has happened on rare occasions. Most of the time, no. But I didn't think they had access to the mouse cursor trajectory.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes your browser tracks all of this, movement, hover, clicks etc. It's how pages are able to respond to various mouse gestures.