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Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?

What we know about ask

Hello everyone, This morning, as i started my shift, i thought i would start visiting some news blogs / websites to kick off the day. When it got to Crooked Timber i saw a captcha page instead, it looked like a traditional Google captcha.

What changes

I clicked it, the spinner spun, and a box opened on the right, showing the traditional "Verify you're human" white title on a blue background. It showed 2 "Manual Verification Steps" : 1.

The setting

Press Ctrl + V and press Run At first i assumed it was a new type of captcha checking i a physical keyboard was attached to the browser

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Signal Ledger on ask

Press Ctrl + V and press Run At first i assumed it was a new type of captcha checking i a physical keyboard was attached to the browser. com/6272' -Wi Hi"" I submited it to one of LLMs my work gives me access to.

Source note

Hacker News reporting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084404

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