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> Cloudflare merely requires CAPTCHA I do agree that Privacy Pass is in theory a good idea, although to say that CloudFlare "merely" requires captchas to be fi
by capableweb 6y ago
> Cloudflare merely requires CAPTCHA
I do agree that Privacy Pass is in theory a good idea, although to say that CloudFlare "merely" requires captchas to be filled out is a bit disingenuous. You're often required to complete 5-10 captchas, and sometimes even after that, you get denied. Had that happen to me multiple times.
- jchw 6y agoI don’t use Tor for all of my traffic, but sometimes I do use it just because I can. And my experience lately is that I usually get hCaptcha and I usually pass it once and get in. It’s Recaptcha that is a serious problem.
- croutonwagon 6y agoGoogle owned domains, namely Youtube, are even worse. They often redirect to different domains for blocks so just changing the circuit does nothing.
- akalsz 6y agoYeah after years of suffering from reCAPTCHA I'm somewhat thankful for hCaptcha. It is still annoying (especially Cloudflare's integration which seems barely compatible with the Tor Browser's cookie and circuit management), but at least I don't have to switch exit nodes twenty times just to have a chance of my solution being accepted (like with reCAPTCHA).
- mikequinlan 6y agoIf you can't pass a CAPTCHA, you need to stop and ask yourself -- are you really a human being, or have you just been programed to believe that you are?
- capableweb 6y agoActually a good point as I never even considered that. Maybe I'm the one who's at wrong here? Seemingly I am passing the captchas, they are not giving me any errors. Simply seems to accept my input, reload the page and ask me to do more.
- iaml 6y agoNot a valid question when google literally has a patent on unsolvable captcha. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661 https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661
- kazinator 6y agoIf you have been trying to solve the same captcha for several hours, you need to stop and ask yourself -- are you really a human being, or have you just been programed to believe that you are?
- arbol 6y agoThis patent has expired due to non payment of fees
- Google234 6y agoThat’s also not google lol
- iaml 6y agoMy bad, I was referring to this comment [0] and didn't notice it was not actually owned by google. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16157480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16157480
- colinmhayes 6y agoThere are some really crazy captchas out there. I've had some where I'd need a microscope and enhance button to get.
- 0df8dkdf 6y ago> You're often required to complete 5-10 captchas, and sometimes even after that, you get denied. Had that happen to me multiple times. Glad you mentioned it. This also has happened to me many time. It is unfortunate botnet and spam has give IP addresses bad names.