Comment Google Groups' implementation (Score 1) 168
Some time ago I already noticed that Google Groups has implemented a bot detection based on behaviour.
However, often when I browse through a google group in an efficient way, google thinks I'm a bot and blocks me for quite a while. The only way around is to work inefficiently on purpose, by making my clicks as rondom as possible with as random as possible time intervals. This costs me at least five times as much time as it would cost me the efficient way.
This is very annoying, so I think it would be better for them to ditch the behaviour detection and just rely on properly designed captcha's.
However, often when I browse through a google group in an efficient way, google thinks I'm a bot and blocks me for quite a while. The only way around is to work inefficiently on purpose, by making my clicks as rondom as possible with as random as possible time intervals. This costs me at least five times as much time as it would cost me the efficient way.
This is very annoying, so I think it would be better for them to ditch the behaviour detection and just rely on properly designed captcha's.