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		sireat on May 31, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha? So this solution would work because most automated spam would not make AJAX calls? Something like Selenium posing as a real user would bypass this kind of protection wouldn't it ?

flyGuyOnTheSly on May 31, 2019 [–]

It works because most bots do not keep running the javascript after pageload like a real user's browser would.

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