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> Users are either blocked outright with CAPTCHA server failure messages, or prevented from reaching websites with a long (and sometimes endless) loop of CAPTCH
by hackuser 11y ago
> Users are either blocked outright with CAPTCHA server failure messages, or prevented from reaching websites with a long (and sometimes endless) loop of CAPTCHAs
Is it really a loop or are users just failing to solve the CAPTCHAs? A loop would be obnoxious: Just tell the user they are blocked; giving them more than 2 or infinite CAPTCHAs is a passive aggressive way to communicate.
- pfg 11y agoMy best guess is that reCAPTCHA doesn't just have two states (pass/fail), but rather something like a confidence factor and a threshold you have to reach to continue to the site (which might depend on your reputation).