Thank you Anthony Lieuallen for sharing those counter-scripts ideas! There are many good ideas here.
We can imagine different work around for those tricks, but captchas are really difficult to manage. I've seen this on some web based games a few years ago: Periodic "Prove your human" captchas with points lost as one fails to solve them, when there's no points left the account is flagged "bot". Zygnox you can use those tricks until the script coders become tired of maintaining their code (before *you* get tired of coding tricks, hopefully). OR You can provide an API to help scripters interact with your site. Of course they will need a special paying account :) If you bring a good API, you will drain the scripters into it; they will no longer work on an ever changing html interface. Scripters account will have a separate ranking and score. Bring them a new challenge! Otherwise every trick you try to detect scripts is a new challenge to coders. Even captchas can be dealt with. GM script can use a tiers server to email them to the user who solves it and reply. Focus and real click can be dispatched as if they were human generated. This race will be lost by the first who is tired of coding. I think the mouse move meter is a good idea, but anything you plan by script can be easily overridden by GM script (which can patch your page's scripts). Firefox can also use surrogate scripts, in case you plan to detect changes in your scripts... The next step before using flash is using some SVG with embedded script (for some actions). This would be quite disturbing for script coders, very few of them know those techniques. This would make a big gap between your site and their knowledge. Good luck ! (and please, give us a link to your site ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en.
