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monkeybutton
on May 11, 2022
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Many popular websites see what you type before you...
That would give you an average message length that's shorter than what you typed. In the case that it was longer, it turned out those users were copying and pasting the content, then maybe editing it a bit before sending.
XCSme
on May 11, 2022
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Oh, I got it now, so there were more characters than they typed.
monkeybutton
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Yes! A clever trick to catch out spammers.
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