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> reCAPTCHA prompts happens a lot, I know its only one click away This actually isn't true when browsing over Tor. It always makes you do 5 or more rounds of "
by jstanley 7y ago
> reCAPTCHA prompts happens a lot, I know its only one click away
This actually isn't true when browsing over Tor. It always makes you do 5 or more rounds of "click the traffic lights", "click the bicycles", etc. I don't know why. It seems to go far beyond checking that you're not a machine, and I suspect they're just abusing Tor users to get free machine-learning training.
- kevindong 7y agoPer CloudFlare themselves: "Based on data across the CloudFlare network, 94% of requests that we see across the Tor network are per se malicious." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/new-data-suggests-94-percent-of-tor-traffic-is-malicious/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/new-data-suggest... https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/
- jstanley 7y agoA sensible CAPTCHA would be fine, but reCAPTCHA is borderline malicious towards Tor users.