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|    August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    new captcha..    |
|    12 Oct 24 09:39:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 195e497e       REPLY: 2:280/464 670a4215       PID: OpenXP/5.0.58 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       Hello Wilfred!               AA>> The actual site that triggered the captcha was https://        AA>> www.caranddriver.com/ ..to a specific article. It doesn't        AA>> seem to be doing that anymore right now. Maybe the        AA>> cookie system remembers me now.               WvV> I clicked around a bit, but can't trigger it either...              OK.. here's what I think has happened. I was reading a        newsletter that ultimately would steer me to a story/site.        But, before it did that, it would go through some intermediary        (for tracking purposes?) ..that's were the captcha would        appear, and THEN take me to the caranddriver article.              But I don't have the original newsletter with the initial        synopis of the stories and links anymore.              I'd swear that when I was poking around the caranddriver site,        the same press'n'hold showed up a couple more times.              Anyway.. it seems that the standard click-here-with-a-check-        mark type captchas can be fooled with automation. And this        "press'n'hold" strategy is away to foil that?                     --         ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.58        * Origin: A turtle that surfs the dark web. [o] A TORtoise (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 129/305 153/757 7715       SEEN-BY: 154/10 30 203/0 218/700 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/110       SEEN-BY: 229/114 206 300 317 400 426 428 470 550 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 266/512 280/464 5003 5006 282/1038 291/111 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/81 120 460/58 467/888 633/267 280 384 412 418       SEEN-BY: 633/509 2744 712/848 770/1 5020/400 5075/35       PATH: 221/1 280/464 633/280 229/426           |
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