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Since I started using a privacy respecting browser and moved to GNU/Linux, my whole life is captchas.
Try using a VPN on top of that.
It makes sense that VPN users see CAPTCHAs though… By design, it’s hard to differentiate an attacker from a legitimate user, and there’s a LOT of cyberattacks that go via VPNs.
That’s also why banks and online stores don’t like VPNs. It’s hard to tell if it’s you logging in vs if it’s an attacker using the same VPN as you.
Firefox and Linux have not really caused any more captchas than I had on windows, using a VPN on the other hand is horrible.
Captchas is one of the reason why I ditched Google as my default engine because I started having nightmares about blurry low res pictures of motorcycles and busses and pedestrian crossings broken up into squares.
There are some really awful captchas out there. I miss the days of just typing out some stretched and tilted numbers and letters.
OTOH there are captchas that you just need to check a box today. It boggles my mind this is not more widespread.
“No, let’s make our users play a fucking puzzle for a minute before granting them access”.
“Train our ai for us in order to login”
Get fucked.
you’re at least a decade late for that concern. why do you think chatgpt is so good at solving recaptcha?
Not all AI is ChatGPT.
I tried to sign up for a Blizzard account and they were giving me long-ass math problems and I had to do fucking 16 of them. So I gave up.
Fuck Blizzard and fuck whoever is setting up the Captchas
That seems so backwards. Computers almost are always better at doing math than humans, so how is that proving the visitor is a human??
It is entirely based on the theory that computers can’t understand an array of pixels
Computers understand the content, but now how it’s represented, so they can’t solve it
Humans understand how it’s represented, but not the content, so they can’t solve it
Mathematicians understand how it’s represented and the content
It’s not to keep computers away, it’s to keep non-mathematicians away!
Did you know: to cancel a Blizzard account you have to send them a photo copy of your ID card? I’ve only ever had to do that for some job applications, and government forms online. But for a video game account??
When solving a captcha becomes a Myst puzzle, go fuck yourself.
Maybe I’m the crazy person, but those types of captchas don’t bother me. I’ll gladly take them over doing a normal captcha on TOR while trying to log in to certain services, only to have entered the wrong password and wasted maybe 5-10 minutes of my time per attempt (usually 2 or more attempts needed).
10 captcha tests is a little ridiculous imo for any situation. I’d just leave the service if I saw that.
If I’m trying to log in to a site or do something on virustotal, you bet I ain’t leaving because I early have things I’m trying to do. That, and I’ll bash my head against a wall until something happens. I can be pigheaded at times.
I’ve gotten a similar type of captcha before, but it was literally impossible. There was no drill on the right side.
Edit: the arrows just shuffled the icons up a slot btw. It’s not like the drill suddenly appeared when I changed it.
So, sometimes, captchas and similar aren’t looking at how successful you are at the puzzles, but rather, how you go about failing them.
Puzzles that AI can pass but you can’t do the same job as puzzles you can do that they can’t.
That said… whoever invented captchas can go to a special place in hell reserved for pedophiles and people who talk too much in the theater,
lol what? “Use the arrows to move the object into the indicated orbit?” There’s not a better way for them to write those instructions? Dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.
Right? And because there was no drill on the right side, I had assumed I was misunderstanding how to do it at first. It was so bad lol.
