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"Please accept the [tech word salad] popup to verify your identity"

Maybe this won't fool you, but it would trick 90% of internet users. (And even if it was 20% instead of 90%, that's still way too much.)



I have seen it posed as 'This site has bot protection. Confirm that you are not a bot by clicking yes', trying to mimic the modern Cloudflare / Google captchas.




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