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by kuschku 2929 days ago
All those "the attacker won't have the knowledge" underestimate that the attacker can simply run their own websites tracking the exact same stuff, and can then just get the same knowledge.

You need to break ReCaptcha? Simple, you implement your own captcha on your own site that's frequently used and whenever you need to solve one you copy the challenge and present it to one of your users.

Same with recording mouse data.

It's an old idea even, very similar to https://xkcd.com/792/