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how often do normal users see CAPTCHAs these days? I seldom see one anymore.
by adamrezich 3y ago
how often do normal users see CAPTCHAs these days? I seldom see one anymore.
- dotancohen 3y agoI see them all the time. Firefox on Ubuntu.
- adamrezich 3y agobut where? which websites? I haven't seen a CAPTCHA on the reg since I stopped posting to 4chan some years back.
- hnav 3y agoMost websites have them, just browse in incognito and either override your user-agent to something funky or connect through a known VPN.
- pests 3y agoAh, just do something completely nonstandard (sans incognito) and the website will stop working.
- i_love_cookies 3y agoalmost anything using cloudflare
- hellojesus 3y agoI get them often, especially with more privacy features turned on. But usually a VPN is enough to trigger it when visiting Google domains.
- Given_47 3y agoThere’s a select few mullvad addresses that don’t trigger it but the majority I use I’ll get hit with them. I honestly find it more concerning when I’m expecting one and I don’t get served a ridiculous puzzle to solve.
- Ylpertnodi 3y agoQuite a few: brave browser + mullvad vpn. I enjoy doing captchas wrong, manly because i can't believe how US fire hydrants, busses, and crosswalks have become so important to me.
- drbawb 3y agoI built a new PC for a friend, and getting the AM5 platform stable was ridiculously challenging, so there were several reinstallations of Windows involved. He didn't use a password manager, so there were a lot of logging in, password resets etc. involved. For virtually every service he had to login to he was asked to complete a CAPTCHA. For Steam in particular: he had to do the first login on the website, because the CAPTCHA inside the application appeared to be bugged and was more like psychological warfare than human-verification. The frustration was palpable. Also turn on a VPN some time (a signal to Google et al. that you're trying to bypass content region-restrictions, or funnel mobile traffic through an ad-blocker) and you are basically guaranteed to see nothing but CAPTCHAs from the predominantly CloudFlare owned and operated Internet. So yes, it's a big problem, but only if your web environment (tracking metadata) are not sufficiently "trusted" :D