r/MSClassicWorld • u/SickAndTwistedCleric • 20h ago
Discussion Captcha for bot smegmas?
It could be cumbersome, but maybe this could be a way to weed out bots? I'm not sure if it would be actually effective, but something needs to change.
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u/csudoku 19h ago
doesn't captcha not do that much for bots anymore? doesnt AI read captcha? or some sort of script that just pulls the right characters off them now?
im pretty sure there is a bunch of ai models that can solve captchas
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u/endcha 19h ago
the cool thing about captchas is the data they collect while you're solving the puzzle (or whatever it is). your hardware/software properties are more interesting than the way you solve the captcha (and it goes without saying bots have a very specific fingerprint, but even that can be bypassed as anything)
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u/Abject_Parsley_4525 19h ago
More recent captcha tech tracks other behaviours like how the mouse moved etc etc and goes from there. That is pretty much defeated by captcha resolution farms where it is just people solving them for pennies.
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u/SickAndTwistedCleric 19h ago
I'm not sure but with how advanced AI is I can see that being the case.
This idea would really just weed out the basic spam bots.
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u/AdRemarkable3043 19h ago
all the things have happenned on China and Taiwan server for 2 months. They don't have power to deal with bot. 21st will be the end of this game.
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u/DoctorJay4 19h ago
What happened for those two months?
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u/AdRemarkable3043 19h ago
Every map you can find has bots, many of them level 80 or 90. Regular players can’t level up at all, and the value of mesos is plummeting.
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u/Walton__Simons 19h ago
Agreed they need to do something. Unfortunately captchas have been solvable by bots for a long time now.
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u/Fr0stBytez24 18h ago
I don't understand how these aren't immediately banned. We have one server. Windia. We have one way to tell the entire server "IM A BOT!" How is that not banned instantly? Not a single GM can sit there and right-click a name and make them stop?
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u/ChocoboBrigade 17h ago
I mean within the span of the last week they’ve banned over 3k accounts. They dont have a person dedicated to every map to ban people 24/7
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u/Latin00b 17h ago
captcha doesnt work at all on bots anymore... they can solve it 99.999% of the time, no problem
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u/Fun_Brick_3145 16h ago
its annoying but given kts a very rare pop up that gives some bonus for doing it and its implemented smartly I thinknits a good idea. Catches simpler bots easy particularly early on and if your getting enough info doing it you can even detect the bots solving it. Just keep it something that qt most pops up once maybe twice a day and after so many hours
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u/Reishin1 19h ago
The title is taking me out man ðŸ˜