elrik@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What about clicking a checkbox means I'm human? How does Cloudflare determine I'm human from that?English
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26 days agoProof of work, which becomes computationally expensive to scale, along with other heuristics based on your browser and page interaction. I believe it’s less about clicking the box and what happens after you’ve clicked the box.
Its use looks contrived to me on the linked GitHub page. The comparison with @ and # is flawed because those symbols are part of the resource name, whereas here the symbol is superfluous. It’s like adding a 🌐 in front of every web URL.