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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.

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

It's /ʲustɑs/  •  security research  •  privacy  •  rollups  •  zk-proofs  •  game theory  •  https://ustas.eth.limo/

To date we’ve been working w Cloudflare and hcaptcha to provide it. No doubt it can be bypassed by someone motivated enough but helps fight the big botnets fairly effectively