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... or you'll need to stop using reCAPTCHA if you want to get any traffic on your Web site. I know, people will slavishly knuckle under, but let me dream for a
by Hizonner 5mo ago
... or you'll need to stop using reCAPTCHA if you want to get any traffic on your Web site.
I know, people will slavishly knuckle under, but let me dream for a few minutes.
- tardedmeme 5mo ago99.999% of people don't give a shit and don't even know what this means. They'll follow the instructions. These are the same 99.999% of people who press win+R ctrl+V enter when the captcha prompts them to. Because do this to see the dancing bunnies.
- mrguyorama 5mo agoThey will do exactly as it says while also ceaselessly complaining, completely unable to connect their choice to use a website with the pain of using that website. There's some sort of serious issue with learned helplessness or something
- ronsor 5mo agoYeah, this is going to turn into another malware vector, isn't it?
- tardedmeme 5mo agoDiscord has a feature where you can log into your account on your PC by scanning a code on your phone. So does Binance.
- mystraline 5mo agoSo does Signal.
- warkdarrior 5mo agoBut Signal is secure(TM)!
- EmbarrassedHelp 5mo agoBut none of those options are requirements to access the service.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoThey're requirements to access my website though! To prove you're not a bot, scan this QR code - with Discord.
- xp84 5mo agoThose are good things though? They’re about logging in, on purpose. Not about attesting to Google that you have a proper smartphone as a proxy for your humanity, like this thing.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoTo prove you're not a bot, scan this QR code with Discord.
- KellyCriterion 5mo ago> press win+R ctrl+V LOL is this real? I guess yes, because yesterday ReCaptcha asked me to screenshot a QR-code with the mobilephone :-D
- EvanAnderson 5mo agoIt is. There are fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs on pwned Wordpress sites that instruct users to run Powershell scripts.
- snailmailman 5mo agoIt’s a common thing for malware. But people are going to be more likely to fall for it when mainstream sites ask you to complete weird tasks with your phone to verify your identity.
- duskdozer 5mo agoPeople are constantly made to jump through strange hoops to do things on the internet. Unless you're really keyed in to what's going on, it's easy to fall for stuff like that.
- nonamesleft 5mo agoI have blocked it for years with ublock origin, if a site doesn't work, ctrl-w. Nowadays i cannot even use google search because of this, any search will trigger a captcha, hilarious (atleast on chromium-based browsers, firefox lets me get a page or two).
- Leonard_of_Q 5mo agoDitch Google Search as well then, use something like SearXNG or another meta-search engine. You'll get more representative results, no tracking and no captchas. Sometimes some of the engines may return captchas but they're kept from the search results, i.e. those engines don't get used for the query. You can run your own instance of SearXNG or one of the alternatives or use one of the available public instances, your choice. The fewer direct interactions with the likes of Google/Apple/Microsoft/etc. the better.
- conradfr 5mo agoThe thing is even a contact form without something like reCaptcha is doomed on today's web: spam all day.
- 986aignan 5mo agoIf it's just a contact form on some random site that isn't particularly valuable to spammers, a bespoke solution like hidden input fields, obfuscation, or some kind of token calculated client-side by JS will probably work just as well.
- account42 5mo agoThat used to be the case, unfortuantely today even bespoke solutions can be completed by automation - any anything that just requires running JS in a headless browser was ineffective for a long time already.