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by EncryptEntropy 2381 days ago
I maintain some medium-sized TG channels and constantly have what we have deemed “surveillance” accounts join daily. One of the admins of the chan implemented a simple turing test bot which requires immediate 60 sec solving of a basic math equation or the account gets kicked. They were solving the “click this button to verify” but none at all seemingly know how to solve 6+4, or they can’t read English quickly enough.
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A few discord groups I've joined use this bot to verify through re captcha (which I hate, but is still a potential solution): https://auttaja.io/
Yes, the click button is on the todo. I have encountered these and the common one is the button click followed by the basic arithmetic. Solvable but anything beyond this would "defeat" it.