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Fails the same test. I build what can be considered bots for a living, though they have nothing to do with spamming or otherwise shady reasons.

Part of the process in building the bot is to send exactly what a browser would send, and we do this by actually making the requests in a browser and viewing the raw request. If my browser doesn't send a honeypot captcha, neither does my bot.




Say you have a field hidden with a div on a low profile, minimum traffic site (100 visitors a week). It's incredibly unlikely and pretty dumb for a bot to be made specifically for that site -- in this case, how could a bot determine whether that field should contain a value or not?




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