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Which sites in 2018 still present multiple CAPTCHAs to users with cookies and JavaScript enabled? I think the theory behind this project is that those problems

Which sites in 2018 still present multiple CAPTCHAs to users with cookies and JavaScript enabled? I think the theory behind this project is that those problems are primarily caused by Tor's popular image as a 'fringe network for pedophiles and drug dealers' and that by making it more mainstream they can fix those issues. (please more replies saying "that sounds really hard" and less replies saying "tor is not a fringe network for pedophiles and drug dealers", thanks)

paulie_a 8y ago
Google. Which uses a really shitty custom captcha for their services.
- jerheinze 8y ago
  Google has always been showing captchas when using their search engine for quiet a long time (even for VPN users). In fact they were even straight blocking users from using that very same captcha: https://bugs.torproject.org/23840 https://bugs.torproject.org/23840
  - paulie_a 8y ago
    I more meant that Google offers a captcha service for others that is quite good, them implemented a really terrible one for the internal services. It truly is awful to deal with. Whoever made it must have been smoking crack or taking large quantities of lsd
    - jerheinze 8y ago
      > I more meant that Google offers a captcha service for others that is quite good, them implemented a really terrible one for the internal services. They're identical now, I rarely got the awful one that you're talking about when searching on Google.
darpa_escapee 8y ago
Cloudflare.
- jerheinze 8y ago
  It's OK now, they no longer show a captcha on most websites behind Cloudflare.
- Hello71 8y ago
  Source? Cloudflare did post a moderately hostile response to Tor a few years back, but their technical implementation is sound and does not present multiple CAPTCHAs to users who have cookies enabled (the CAPTCHA might be broken with JS off, but that's a Google problem).
  - actuator 8y ago
    Even I have seen CF captchas on multiple sites when using Tor. Though might be because of my usage pattern where I use Tor for a selective list of sites giving CF less chance to maintain my identity.

paulie_a 8y ago

Google. Which uses a really shitty custom captcha for their services.

jerheinze 8y ago
Google has always been showing captchas when using their search engine for quiet a long time (even for VPN users). In fact they were even straight blocking users from using that very same captcha: https://bugs.torproject.org/23840 https://bugs.torproject.org/23840
- paulie_a 8y ago
  I more meant that Google offers a captcha service for others that is quite good, them implemented a really terrible one for the internal services. It truly is awful to deal with. Whoever made it must have been smoking crack or taking large quantities of lsd
  - jerheinze 8y ago
    > I more meant that Google offers a captcha service for others that is quite good, them implemented a really terrible one for the internal services. They're identical now, I rarely got the awful one that you're talking about when searching on Google.

darpa_escapee 8y ago

Cloudflare.

jerheinze 8y ago
It's OK now, they no longer show a captcha on most websites behind Cloudflare.
Hello71 8y ago
Source? Cloudflare did post a moderately hostile response to Tor a few years back, but their technical implementation is sound and does not present multiple CAPTCHAs to users who have cookies enabled (the CAPTCHA might be broken with JS off, but that's a Google problem).
- actuator 8y ago
  Even I have seen CF captchas on multiple sites when using Tor. Though might be because of my usage pattern where I use Tor for a selective list of sites giving CF less chance to maintain my identity.