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I try hard not to be a luddite as I age, but this level of automation and machine learning is so concerning. It is SO frustrating to accidentally appear as a b
by colemickens 8y ago
I try hard not to be a luddite as I age, but this level of automation and machine learning is so concerning.
It is SO frustrating to accidentally appear as a bot and get stuck at the mercy of an automated system. I was on some random site the other day and spent 3+ minutes solving Captchas until it finally let me through. I thought I was losing my mind. I don't spam, I don't automate queries, I come from an IP that has two residential users (netflix, xbox traffic dominate everything). Who knows what I did to offend the algorithm.
- perl4ever 8y agoI was getting a persistent but unhelpful error message from an airline website while trying to change my reservation shortly after midnight. I assumed at first I just hit the maintenance window and should try again in the morning, but now I am reading this thread and wondering if it's a deliberate obfuscation that it deemed my connection suspicious.
- jgaa 8y agoGoogle captchas appears (to me) to be designed to identify individuals, not to separate anonymous users from machines. Google want to know exactly who you are, when they harvest your visits and behavior on almost all sites on the Internet.
- colemickens 8y agoI don't understand what this has to do with the fact that I repeatedly am having to prove that I'm not a bot despite doing nothing that ought to be triggering Captcha checks. But hey, I guess mentioning this simple observation is worthy of numerous downvotes here. Always lovely.
- justtopost 8y agoI get this constantly. Its the new digital ghetto google has created.