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Introducing invisible CAPTCHAs 🤖 

At Privy, we solve complex issues so developers can scale their apps confidently.

Bots are a common issue and now our new self-serve CAPTCHA feature automatically and invisibly detects them — with no friction to real users. 

Try it out from your settings at dashboard.privy.io!

Data privacy on the web. Keeper of the fabric @privy.

Fmr Protocol Labs consensus work. Before that YC S14 🇫🇷🌐🍊

how does this detect them?

Sounds amazing!

Building /stokefire a mobile strategy game onchain. Run and own poolfish.xyz a calculator for LP providers. Built Potion solo and sold for $300k.

It’s a series of small javascript challenges that run to determine if a client has enough unique attributes to not be a bot.

Right. Now it needs to be tuned per app to prevent false positives or negatives. :)

so it will do the challenges at sign in and not let users in that are most likely bots?

Is the algorithm public? This kind of protection is usually easy to bypass by emulating some basic browser env, I'd like to look at it if possible