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I find that when I solve a Captcha too quickly, I get another one. And another one. And another one. So instead, I wait a short time, click a few wrong boxes, t

by noja 6y ago

I find that when I solve a Captcha too quickly, I get another one. And another one. And another one. So instead, I wait a short time, click a few wrong boxes, then enter the correct Captcha. Maybe this is part of it, but I don't like it.

Normille 6y ago
If the Buster plugin can't solve the reCaptcha for me [It does fail from time to time] then I just don't bother visiting that website. Or if it's a site I need to use, then I'll try again later and see if I either get let in without being asked to jump through hoops, or get a reCaptcha Buster can solve. I simply refuse to waste my time and drive up my blood pressure by doing unpaid training work for Google's AI, in order to visit some crappy website. I really wish more people would start boycotting any site which uses reCaptcha [or its derivatives], so we could get rid of this blight on the internet. I've spotted this new hCaptcha junk show up recently on a couple of sites I used to frequent. I don't visit those sites any more. So well done webmasters. Apparently annoying the shit out of visitors to your site tends to drive them away. Who'da thunk it?!
- bluGill 6y ago
  I sent a email to my representative, which got my automatically added to her newsletter. But the unsubscribe link doesn't work without solving one...
  - account42 6y ago
    Where? That would not be legal in many countries and I suggest you try reporting it.
    - mnw21cam 6y ago
      Let me guess... You can try reporting it to the authorities, but they need you to solve a CAPTCHA first.
    - bluGill 6y ago
      As in US house of representives. Cheri Busto to be exact in case someone works with her.
      - deleted 6y ago
        [deleted]
- Aeolun 6y ago
  Can you provide an alternative that doesn’t involve my contact form getting spammed to hell with crap?
  - dsanduleac 6y ago
    Use the recaptcha after form submission only, rather than on the whole website. Then at least the user is incentivised to do it as a last step of a process, as opposed to being stopped in their tracks before they even got to visit the website.
  - account42 6y ago
    I have my email address listed in plain text on my website and with a simple regular expression to to reject the standard pharma/bitcount/etc. spams at the SMTP level based on subject there is at most a couple of spam emails pair day. Hardly takes any time to go through that.
villux 6y ago
What service are you using? Some browser plugin I assume?

by noja 6y ago

Normille 6y ago

If the Buster plugin can't solve the reCaptcha for me [It does fail from time to time] then I just don't bother visiting that website. Or if it's a site I need to use, then I'll try again later and see if I either get let in without being asked to jump through hoops, or get a reCaptcha Buster can solve. I simply refuse to waste my time and drive up my blood pressure by doing unpaid training work for Google's AI, in order to visit some crappy website. I really wish more people would start boycotting any site which uses reCaptcha [or its derivatives], so we could get rid of this blight on the internet. I've spotted this new hCaptcha junk show up recently on a couple of sites I used to frequent. I don't visit those sites any more. So well done webmasters. Apparently annoying the shit out of visitors to your site tends to drive them away. Who'da thunk it?!

bluGill 6y ago
I sent a email to my representative, which got my automatically added to her newsletter. But the unsubscribe link doesn't work without solving one...
- account42 6y ago
  Where? That would not be legal in many countries and I suggest you try reporting it.
  - mnw21cam 6y ago
    Let me guess... You can try reporting it to the authorities, but they need you to solve a CAPTCHA first.
  - bluGill 6y ago
    As in US house of representives. Cheri Busto to be exact in case someone works with her.
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
Aeolun 6y ago
Can you provide an alternative that doesn’t involve my contact form getting spammed to hell with crap?
- dsanduleac 6y ago
  Use the recaptcha after form submission only, rather than on the whole website. Then at least the user is incentivised to do it as a last step of a process, as opposed to being stopped in their tracks before they even got to visit the website.
- account42 6y ago
  I have my email address listed in plain text on my website and with a simple regular expression to to reject the standard pharma/bitcount/etc. spams at the SMTP level based on subject there is at most a couple of spam emails pair day. Hardly takes any time to go through that.

villux 6y ago

What service are you using? Some browser plugin I assume?