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by SweetSoftPillow 9 days ago
The most important part that most commenters did not read:

"And to be clear: it checks that someone is playing, not who they are. Keep your real checks behind it."

It's just a game, not a CAPTCHA.

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Both the submission title and the first sentence are: Prove you’re human by winning a claw machine.
They should make it more clear that it's a concept.

I could see a real version that sends the inputs to the backend where some analysis is done, but right now an adversary can just run the onVerify callback as "bypass".