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My thoughts exactly. A bot doesn't care if it takes 2 seconds to fade the images out and in for another challenge round, but a human viewing it perceives it as
by GraemeL 7y ago
My thoughts exactly. A bot doesn't care if it takes 2 seconds to fade the images out and in for another challenge round, but a human viewing it perceives it as a frustrating delay.
I've become accustomed to just closing any page that presents me with a v2 reCAPTCHA.
- jedberg 7y agoUnfortunately one of those pages was the Equifax settlement. And other similar “important” sites. I never seem to come across them when it’s a service I could easily quit or avoid.
- tacon 7y agoWhy would anyone protect an "unimportant" site with a captcha? The value of the information, to someone, in bulk, is exactly why some throttling is needed.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoThis might not be so sinister. It so happens that "important" operations, like a class action lawsuit settlement, are also the type of thing you'd particularly want to protect from bots.
- lozenge 7y agoGood CAPTCHAs are solved by farming them out to low-paid workers, not bots.