Filter for hidden, zero-size, display:none elements

[Hungry Bulldozer]

Hey guys, I've added this request to IdeaCollector, but I'm really interested in your opinion about that.
There are sites where use of hidden, zero-size elements is kind of anti-bot protection.
To not make unsubstantiated statements, I'm attaching a screenshot.



You can see here that there are some hidden elements on the page. Yes, not all of them (may be even none) to detect that it is a bot, but there are cases when site protection does that for sure.
It can be 2 or 3 input:file but only one of them is to set value, while others is to cofuse a bot. And when you set value, click the wrong (hidden element) it detects you as a bot, since human being coudn't do that.
So my suggestion is to have an option-filter for such kind of sites, and when you apply this option it doesn't searches element that are hidden, display:none or with zero width/height.

 

[Kepperbes]

Well I think adding this would be an obvious good idea.

 

[Hungry Bulldozer]

That's what I'm talking about. Two elements with the same class name, but one of them has 0 size

 

[nitin2003]

Yes, I also have seen this. This would a good idea to combat such a situation..

 

[decibelgr]

+ one from me! Really great idea!

 

[nevadahsot]

Exclude input which contains "hidden" is quite easy.
http://zennolab.com/discussion/register.php
There are 39 inputs on it.
including 19 hidden ones.

If want exclude mutiple, will look like:
(For example,http://indimusic.tv/join.php)
^(?!.*hidden|.*pass|.*nick|.*city|.*zip|.*mail|.*date|.*tag|.*term|.*submit|.*captcha|.*profile|.*first|.*last).*$ OR
^(?!.*hidden|.*pass|.*nick|.*city|.*zip|.*mail|.*date|.*tag|.*term|.*submit|.*captcha|.*profile|.*first|.*last). OR
^(?!.*hidden|.*pass|.*nick|.*city|.*zip|.*mail|.*date|.*tag|.*term|.*submit|.*captcha|.*profile|.*first|.*last)
(if .*name, will get no result, most input has name=")
-----this will locate unknow field(s).
Maybe the result is a input, which:
It's field text is: *Artist/Brand Name
and the field name: name="[headline]....



(?!.*somethingA|.*sthB..... ------loop this enough times, will
fill all the unknow fields. (just fill some random
stuff and in many cases, the registration will success)

In a word, it's still a regex problem.

 

[Hungry Bulldozer]

I do know work around in code and yeah that's pretty simple, but I have been coding on zenno for a few years and I do think it is pretty usefull for guys who are new with that.

 

[qlwik]

it is possible to ignore input with display: none in css?

 

[qlwik]

nvm solved

 

[Drew]

was this ever implemented.

 

[rostonix]

was this ever implemented.

Nope