jonny (nonvenomous) on Nostr: so next! the site config! meta ships a set of instructions for how to defeat the bot ...

so next! the site config! meta ships a set of instructions for how to defeat the bot checks for a bunch of common sites! Explicit instructions on how to walk around its competitors checks! if i was a competitor, like oh say "reddit" whose entire stock price is based on the belief that it is a source of real human writing that can be rented as training data, i might have a few things to say about another company fielding a product that is designed to fill my thing with slop!

Notice the OfferUp prompt: OfferUp blocks automated visits "Sorry, we have blocked your request!" and describes it as a bot wall (the "you aren't supposed to bypass this" result). but it then immediately says to "treat it as a bot challenge." Perfectly captures the halfhearted nod to "ok don't bypass things that are like hey you muse fuck off" amidst the entire captcha bypass suite.