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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

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.
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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.

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.
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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.