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Not even India, it's just piped into all our capchas
by iancmceachern 3y ago
Not even India, it's just piped into all our capchas
- nvch 3y ago“Select all images with illegally parked cars” starts to feel quite possible
- znpy 3y agothat would actually be cool, and an useful use of captchas, for once.
- john2x 3y agoPractically fool proof. A net positive for society.
- andy99 3y agoCaptchas, at least recaptcha which is the main image selection one, exist to enforce Google's browser monopoly and force tracking on you. You're not proving you're a human, you're being punished for not behaving how google wants. It's vile.
- basilgohar 3y agoThis is a little known fact and proper characterization of reCaptcha that I wish I could draw even more attention to.
- nulld3v 3y agoI dunno, I frequently do recaptchas on Firefox on Linux and it hasn't been a problem for me? It does feel like they make me do the image selection more often, but I've never had any problems completing the captchas and it doesn't happen often enough to bother me.
- LtWorf 3y agoYou like wasting time working for free for google?
- nulld3v 3y agoWell no, but I also understand why captchas are kinda necessary.
- LtWorf 3y agoBecause google wants us to work for free? Because they want to punish those who dare to use firefox without changing the user agent?
- nulld3v 3y agoPossible, but I think the more likely explanation is that Firefox users are just higher risk. I don't think the slightly increasesed rare of captchas is going to drive people off of Firefox.
- LtWorf 3y agoDo you really think hackers don't know about the User-Agent header?
- nulld3v 3y agoNo, but in whatever little bot/scraper blocking work I did, user-agent blocking was an incredibly powerful low-hanging fruit. For sensitive material, we would often insta-ban anyone who hit us with a 'curl' user-agent and that definitely killed a lot of script-kiddies' dreams right then and there. Obviously, if you are a determined "hacker" you would get past that and hit the honeypots but simple filters could filter out enough scrapers such that the rest of the attacks could be manually evaluated by humans.
- fragmede 3y agoI don't think that's an accurate characterization because the difficulty of the recaptcha is based upon the property its protecting. If it was just about behaving how google wants, then someone who behaved how Google wants shouldn't get tested harder on sketchier sites.
- cute_boi 3y agoI think it is unethical to make people free work in such case. Captcha is there to prove if the user is human or not.