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A simple captcha would be to just make the user move their mouse or finger to 2 or 3 dots in a square.

Shouldn’t take more than a second to perform the motions as a website visitor..

If the movement is suspiciously smooth, or isn’t accelerated and decelerated as a human hand would, it’s a bot - or an agentic browser.



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