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If a bot just makes more random mouse movements of varied speeds, and takes a bit longer, won't it appear human?

The bot probably has too much or too little mail in it's Gmail inbox, or maybe its is not many Google+ circles of confirmed authentic humans. Maybe the bot has not been using Google Chrome for a very long time, so its browsing patterns may still seem incoherent. This socially disconnected bot is abnormal; it doesn't fit into society. It deserves punishment; we'll make it click pictures of cats. Once it gets enough friends on Google+, we'll cut it some slack.

I posted this multiple times in this thread already, but I tried it with a Google Account that has a fake name, hasn’t been used for over 2 years, has received nor sent any emails since then, is in only one Google+ circle, and was only ever used from Firefox.

And it passed the test. While trying it from within a Java client toolkit.

Like, I took the worst setup any spammer would have, and it passed.

How is this going to protect my sites from spammers? And on the other hand, am I even allowed to embed this into my site, if I am in the EU (Data protection, etc)?

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