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Eugh, I hate the image based CAPTCHAs, they take way more mental power than the old text based ones did and often take me 2 or 3 tries to get right. Is there a

Eugh, I hate the image based CAPTCHAs, they take way more mental power than the old text based ones did and often take me 2 or 3 tries to get right. Is there a way to permanently opt back to the text based ones?

Klathmon 11y ago
disabling javascript goes back to the older "squiggly words" style in my experience. I have no idea if that happens with cloudflare though.
- mdip 11y ago
  Unfortunately, it doesn't ... I wish it did. You now get a page with images that have checkboxes next to them. When you submit the form, you get a Base64 key to paste into a text box.
  - ultramancool 11y ago
    Hmm, wonder if they're doing this to try to get around captcha solver services... this seems easy enough to construct into a single image with numbers that you could tell someone to enter via a solver service though.
Jordrok 11y ago
Glad that I'm not the only one who dislikes the new style. They do have one advantage - they seem to be solvable 100% of the time (at least for now). In every other aspect though I find them to be way more annoying than the old ones. They're slower to load, take longer to solve, require much more concentration, and have extremely variable difficulty. The worst are the ones which replace each image you click with a new one, requiring another 5-10 seconds for loading.
- jeffasinger 11y ago
  I've gotten one or two wrong before. Sometimes the questions aren't well defined for a given picture. For example, the question was "Does this have a river in it?" with a picture of the Grand Canyon, where you couldn't quite see down to the Colorado River.
rpgmaker 11y ago
I find them easier (and thus prefer them) than the gibberish "words" CAPTCHAs Google uses that deem me a machine time and time again.
sp0rk 11y ago
I'm guessing you aren't talking about the ones displayed to Tor users before. The text-based ones presented to Tor users with Javascript disabled were almost impossible to answer correctly. The CAPTCHAs still irritate me, but the image-based ones are far superior to what I was being given previously.

Klathmon 11y ago

disabling javascript goes back to the older "squiggly words" style in my experience. I have no idea if that happens with cloudflare though.

mdip 11y ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't ... I wish it did. You now get a page with images that have checkboxes next to them. When you submit the form, you get a Base64 key to paste into a text box.
- ultramancool 11y ago
  Hmm, wonder if they're doing this to try to get around captcha solver services... this seems easy enough to construct into a single image with numbers that you could tell someone to enter via a solver service though.

Jordrok 11y ago

Glad that I'm not the only one who dislikes the new style. They do have one advantage - they seem to be solvable 100% of the time (at least for now). In every other aspect though I find them to be way more annoying than the old ones. They're slower to load, take longer to solve, require much more concentration, and have extremely variable difficulty. The worst are the ones which replace each image you click with a new one, requiring another 5-10 seconds for loading.

jeffasinger 11y ago
I've gotten one or two wrong before. Sometimes the questions aren't well defined for a given picture. For example, the question was "Does this have a river in it?" with a picture of the Grand Canyon, where you couldn't quite see down to the Colorado River.

rpgmaker 11y ago

I find them easier (and thus prefer them) than the gibberish "words" CAPTCHAs Google uses that deem me a machine time and time again.

sp0rk 11y ago

I'm guessing you aren't talking about the ones displayed to Tor users before. The text-based ones presented to Tor users with Javascript disabled were almost impossible to answer correctly. The CAPTCHAs still irritate me, but the image-based ones are far superior to what I was being given previously.