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Try using Tor for a day or two, you'll get reCAPTCHAs on almost every website and in many cases you need to fill multiple out with increasing levels of distorte
by cyphar 7y ago
Try using Tor for a day or two, you'll get reCAPTCHAs on almost every website and in many cases you need to fill multiple out with increasing levels of distorted images. The best one is CloudFlare which can not only ask you to solve a reCAPTCHA once -- but several times when trying to load a single page. And sometimes Google will even refuse to give you a challenge at all because your exit IP is "especially dangerous"!
If 10% of web developers used Tor on weekends, no website would use reCAPTCHA because they'd realise how painful it is to certain users. I run a Tor relay (non-exit) at home, and now I get more reCAPTCHA even though there's no possible reason to assume my home IP is "bad". I'm still going to run my Tor relay -- I just think it's interesting to note that users are being punished by a giant MITM-as-a-Service company for trying to help other people use the internet anonymously.
- webninja 7y agoThank Cloudflare