What pisses me off even more than this is when I do all these checks and the website's automatic systems lock my account because they think I'm a bot. what even if the point of all those CAPTCHAS and other tests if you're just going to lock my account afterwards anyway. Internet is more annoying now than it was 10-15 yrs ago.
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When I was signing up for something, (maybe Lemmy?) I got caught in a CAPTCHA where I had to identify street lights. Every time I clicked one the picture would change and there would be more street lights. Eventually I gave up, clicked Submit and it let me in.
Yeah I hate that too. For me it's always bicycles, buses or motorcycles. All the fucking time.
They've been using us the whole time to train their AI autopilot driving technology.
Looks like they trained it bad on purpose, as a joke.
I am bleeding, making me the victor
Meanwhile, at least 90 percent of comments on Youtube are made by bots.
Dead internet theory is real, at least on youtube.
Its a self-perpetuating cycle. Set aside the normally deplorable state of YouTube comments. Once you hit a critical mass of "Neat!" and "I liked it 💖🇺🇸🎆" and "Prussy en bi0" comments, why the hell would you bother reading much less participating? Then human interactions tank and its Oops! All Bots! in short order.
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Are you a bot? Because that's the kind of post a bot would do.
Beep Boop.
...and that's exactly what a bot would SAY!
~~Captchad~~ got them!
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Pop-ups begging for my email are worse. I've started putting "admin@" as the email and signing them up for everything.
I usually go with gofuckyourself@
I dismissed one today with [email protected]. Then I found step 2 was a paywall. I really fucking hate those popups that ask for an email without telling you there's a paywall next, sometimes there's something I think I want next but the paywall tells me I don't, but then they've already got my email even though I haven't signed up.
Interesting, I do use Freetube on laptop but it's been finicky about when it wants to work lately. I figured it was more of YT blocking bs.
I tried Newpipe for Android and it wouldn't work, so I went to the fork PipePipe which does work better, but at some point I had to login so it could use my API because YT blocked that too. Plus PipePipe can scan NicoNico videos and Bilibili videos.
How good is Freetube on android?
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I was trying to recover my Steam password last night and failed so many of those "check all the boxes with MOTORCYCLES" that it stopped even letting me try anymore. Fucking broken bullshit.
I've failed those before, probably because I move rather mechanically. I've tried deliberately putting delays and random mouse movements while don't them.
Lol I've had the same thought. On ones that make you click all the squares that have a bike or whatever, I always click a wrong one and then unselect it. Ya, that's totally human behavior now.
Doesn't happen to me, but I don't browse behind a VPN. People behind VPNs get this usually because lots of bad actors also hide behind VPNs.
lots of bad actors also hide behind VPNs
Stop listening to corpo bullshit, you sound like a fucking moron
I mean it's not corporate bullshit. Yes there are plenty of legitimate uses, but the majority of bad actors are over VPN's, so hence the statement is true.
I mean it's not corporate bullshit
Yes, it is. VPNs have nothing to do with needing to log in, nor does """"""bad actors""""" have anything to do with it
I think you're missing their point.
No, I'm continuing my point after they tried to change it
It's corporate bullshit to pretend bad actors using VPNs are the reason these things are done. Even mentioning it is tiny-brain bullshit, y'all licking that boot hard rn
You're missing the point, and you're being an asshole about it. Take a chill pill, my guy.
You're missing the point
Which is that corps will use bullshit reasons to do something annoying, but sure, pretend it's something else
and you're being an asshole about it
Waaaah, the guy who's intelligence I insulted isn't being nice to me
Take a chill pill, my guy.
Why is it every time a corpo ass-licker gets told they're exactly that this is the response? I'm as chill as can be, y'all are just pathetic corpo lovers. If that upsets you: be better in future
Waaaah, the guy who's intelligence I insulted isn't being nice to me
You came into this thread calling somebody a fucking moron, unprovoked. Your shitty attitude has nothing to do with how anybody has treated you. Don't blame others for your personality.
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Your initial "point" was just to insult them. You called them a moron. Nobody's going to engage with that as if it's reasonable.
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They literally do. Scammers, DDoSers, phishers, bot farms, etc all use VPNs to hide their locations. VPN IPs are commonly blacklisted by providers like cloudflare, meaning that if you use them you will be subject to anti bot security like captchas and time delays. Do you think that vpns just are magically not detectable?
You got a source for that?
One of the ways VPNs work is by having all your web traffic look like it's coming from somewhere else, obscuring where you're really from. They will see a different IP address than what yours actually is. If you were the only person doing this there would be no problem, but VPNs only have so many servers so companies often know what IP addresses those are. What they see is THOUSANDS of actions being taken by a single IP address, so of course it looks like bots! It makes total sense to have some verification to help against DDOS attacks and bad actors.
Bootlicker spotted
You have no clue whatsoever how internet security works, do you... and also anyone who has used a VPN will tell you that this is how it works. The instant you're behind a VPN, you're part of a block of IP addresses which are generally reserved for datacenter usage.
There's some exceptions to this, as some VPNs are kinda shady and route through residential IP addresses, but a lot of the time when someone is trying to get around an IP ban, region lock, etc -- they're going to use VPNs. So companies the world over block VPN IP ranges by default for that very reason.
This is why you get the captcha requirements, this is why you're clicking pictures of busses non-stop.
Damn boy you really love the taste of leather in the morning....
You are over loaded on corpo koolaid, why are you shilling for the enemy?
Sundar is that you, u old creep?
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Commercial VPNs are too inconvenient and saturated these days. It is not 2010 anymore. Every commercial VPN is leveraged by scrapers and other bots. If you use them, expect to face captchas. For the same price as a commercial VPN provider I rent a VPS and run OpenVPN on it. Personal, private, dedicated IPv4.
You are all nerds, act like it.
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I am less annoyed by YouTube being shit and more annoyed by 3rd party websites clinging to YouTube for their video hosting needs because it is free. I'm also annoyed by the degree to which scrappers and other automation tools have made "Are You A Bot?" filters necessary to conserve the (relatively) limited resources of big retail web front-ends.
Like, fuck YouTube, sure. But they're not putting these blocks up for the thrill of it. They're trying to limit served content to actual humans rather than automated engines intended to juice view counts and harvest "free" data for AI training.
Bots are a problem. No single measure completely gets rid of them. Each measure just removes some of the bots. I personally think accounts are a decent measure, everyone should have a password manager anyway that lets them automatically log in on all their devices.
The problem of course is the tracking that's being done with the accounts, but I think the accounts themselves aren't the problem.
That's part of it, but it's certainly ALSO a mechanism to encourage people to use an account, or to register if they haven't, because that's more trackable and monetisable.
Same reason why when you hit an X post or an Instagram post it normally lets you see a little tease but roadblocks you to sign in as soon as you start scrolling. They want you signed in for their own reasons.
If google wanted, they could implement a range of measures to disincentivise bots, like not counting views apart from signed-in users so there's less reason for bots to be engaging with the platform, but that also is bad for their ad view monetisation metrics so they surely don't want to do that. They'd rather inconvenience the user.
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Free VPNs will get that a lot.
Even in paid VPNs, you still have to change servers until you find one that works.
Proton VPN (despite CEO controversies) is probably the best one to get around that, since they have 11000 servers.
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Pipepipe
Whenever I encounter that while trying to view something in private browsing (to avoid it tainting my recommendations), I go out of my way to use an alternative frontend just to spite them.
It's a necessary evil sadly. The internet is so overrun with bots that if there wasn't a captcha or those cloudflare "click here to pass" buttons, the internet would implode.
OP isn't trying to post, just trying to view. There is no justification for a captcha there.
Well besides forcing you to ID your self by showing sundar the creep your buthole finger print
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