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Ask HN: When do human-verification puzzles become offensive?
Dropbox prevented me from accessing my account via their mobile website by giving me a multiple-step puzzle to solve, to prove I was human.
After completing the first 4 steps, I was given an extra five to solve. To prove I'm human. When I tried accessing an account I use everyday. In a browser which has my credentials already stored.
Has anyone encountered similar experiences where these puzzles were more than a little inconvenient?
- quickthrower2 6y agoyes but not to that extent. I guess it depends how suspicious they are of your browser fingerprint. Sucks.
- taxcoder 6y ago>When do human-verification puzzles become offensive? When they ask you to select the nudes.
- runawaybottle 6y agoSteam had me select crosswalks for almost 5 straight minutes. I don’t know if my selections were not getting queued on the server (no clue how it’s set up), so it almost felt like they had me in a holding pattern selecting crosswalks until they were ready to validate it.