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by Anarch157a 2519 days ago
Then bot makers will start applying fuzzing to the movements, randomly placing the cursor inside a region over the target, varying the speed, releasing the slider and trying again, etc.

There's no reason yet to go to such lenghts, so the extra effort would be wasted, but as soon as it becomes necessary, someone will do it.

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The endgame is probably training some neural net with real user behavior and using that to generate realistic usage patterns.
Then the spammers using that data to create more bots.
Much cheaper to just hire poor people to click boxes.
Even the bot in this blog does fuzzing