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Cloudflare Precursor watches your mouse and keyboard to decide if you are human (nerds.xyz)
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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That may sound preferable to clicking every square containing a traffic light, but it also means Cloudflare is gathering a much broader picture of how visitors behave on a website.

Traditional bot protection tends to focus on specific moments. A visitor may face a challenge while logging in, creating an account, or completing a purchase. Once that challenge is passed, the rest of the browsing session may receive less attention.

Edit: a lot of popular Lemmy instances use cloudflare instead of annubis. I'm not sure what this specific instance uses.

[–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The product in this article (Precursor) is not the same as what Lemmy instances use (Turnstile). Turnstile uses the same cryptographic proof-of-work puzzle as Anubis and does not track any of these other metrics. If you see a CAPTCHA-style "Verified" message with Cloudflare's logo, you're seeing Turnstile, not Precursor.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 23 hours ago

It's an enterprise product, for now. I suppose that depends on how deep pockets are.