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I can only assume that every time I back out of these sites because I don't want to check the box or just don't want to wait a few seconds that is marketed to the site owner as a GREAT VICTORY as I am clearly a EVIL BOT that they have defended the site from.

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Be sure they multiply your number by 100 at least. I was getting numbers for "evil bots" way exceeding possible good and malicious traffic.

They are probably counting every single http request rejection as an evil bot

I did some math, and even if they would count every http pass through together with rejection traffic, their numbers would still be greatly exaggerated.

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