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I'm really starting to hate all the captchas with a burning passion. Partly because the corporation I work for seems to have gotten our NAT addresses onto a bl

I'm really starting to hate all the captchas with a burning passion. Partly because the corporation I work for seems to have gotten our NAT addresses onto a blacklist so I get captcha'd constantly, and partly because my close up vision is getting noticeably weaker (pushing 50, that's why) and without hunting down my reading glasses it can be difficult to make out the smaller details necessary to solve the puzzle. Especially when I'm on my phone. I really wish we could find something relatively foolproof that didn't rely heavily on tracking or really good vision.

chrismorgan 6y ago
Similar deal where I am at present in India: the small ISP uses carrier-grade NAT, so there’s malware and related activity occurring every day from at least one of the who-knows-how-many people behind this one IP address. Last time I was here in 2016 it was actually a lot worse than it is now (then, any Cloudflare site would trigger it, so I’d be hitting dozens of challenges per day), but I still get the occasional hCaptcha here (e.g. the Audacity wiki), and they’re awful. I normally take two or three attempts (quite apart from the regular times when you finish the challenge and press submit, and it just does nothing), guessing things like whether they want to count this particular dark smudge as a motorcycle or not, or whether this fragment of a motorcycle should count or not. I wish people would just face up to the reality that challenge-based CAPTHCA techniques have failed, and stop using them.
- hda2 6y ago
  Try using privacy pass. It's designed for use cases like yours.
  - LeoPanthera 6y ago
    Not available for Safari though. Or any mobile browser?
  - chrismorgan 6y ago
    That still requires you to fill out a CAPTCHA at least once, and also requires that you install a browser extension, which I baulk at doing, especially when it needs the “do anything on any website” permission.

chrismorgan 6y ago

Similar deal where I am at present in India: the small ISP uses carrier-grade NAT, so there’s malware and related activity occurring every day from at least one of the who-knows-how-many people behind this one IP address. Last time I was here in 2016 it was actually a lot worse than it is now (then, any Cloudflare site would trigger it, so I’d be hitting dozens of challenges per day), but I still get the occasional hCaptcha here (e.g. the Audacity wiki), and they’re awful. I normally take two or three attempts (quite apart from the regular times when you finish the challenge and press submit, and it just does nothing), guessing things like whether they want to count this particular dark smudge as a motorcycle or not, or whether this fragment of a motorcycle should count or not. I wish people would just face up to the reality that challenge-based CAPTHCA techniques have failed, and stop using them.

hda2 6y ago
Try using privacy pass. It's designed for use cases like yours.
- LeoPanthera 6y ago
  Not available for Safari though. Or any mobile browser?
- chrismorgan 6y ago
  That still requires you to fill out a CAPTCHA at least once, and also requires that you install a browser extension, which I baulk at doing, especially when it needs the “do anything on any website” permission.