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Dunno, but is anyone else continuing to seem to get what feels like 3-4 minute reCaptcha challenges? I’m getting mentally exhausted having to try to solve the s
by kotaKat 1mo ago
Dunno, but is anyone else continuing to seem to get what feels like 3-4 minute reCaptcha challenges? I’m getting mentally exhausted having to try to solve the super blurry pick-the-streetlights they keep throwing at me in loops.
It feels like I have to go slowly through it only for it to eventually end in a “please try again” as I sit and wait ten seconds for each square to slowly fade in a new stupid bus for me to click.
How is this fair to the humans?
- StilesCrisis 1mo agoThis is a tarpit. They've decided you're almost certainly a bot. If you're willing to solve the captchas for three minutes straight, they eventually might relent and let you in, or maybe not.
- bluGill 1mo agoI doubt any human would solve them for 3 minutes straight, but a bot might. So closing and reloading the page (something a human would do) might work. Of course bots that don't do this will quickly figure out that they should - just like every other attempt to figure out if this is a bot or not... There is no good automated answer. Things bots do to abuse web pages should be made illegal and then jail (fine...) the people who set the abusive bots loose - but I suspect most abusive bots are foreign and so we can't do anything without sending in an army (obviously unacceptable)
- kotaKat 1mo ago> I doubt any human would solve them for 3 minutes straight Cognitive overload. There's days I'm just straight up tired and don't realize it until I'm at least one "please try again", page refresh, and endless traffic light game later that I'm probably in the tarpit and wonder why. The weird thing is that I don't KNOW why. I use good ol' consumer Chrome, good ol' consumer MacOS, a consumer ISP, and my IP isn't in any kind of reputational blacklists that I'm aware of.