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kristianpyesterday at 8:20 PM1 replyview on HN

This opens up a new question: how does bot detection work when the bot is using the computer via a gui?


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itintheoryyesterday at 8:52 PM

On it's face, I'm not sure that's a new question. Bots using browser automation frameworks (puppeteer, selenium, playwright etc) have been around for a while. There are signals used in bot detection tools like cursor movement speed, accuracy, keyboard timing, etc. How those detection tools might update to support legitimate bot users does seem like an open question to me though.