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kenkam on Oct 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to beat comment spam

This is a cat and mouse game. If enough websites out there use this technique then there will be bots that can circumvent this, although some non-trivial amount of work is needed to parse the javascript.

phpnode on Oct 12, 2012 [–]

Not really hard at all, you can automate a browser using phantomjs and it's really fast too.

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