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I tried to sign up for a Blizzard account and they were giving me long-ass math problems and I had to do fucking 16 of them. So I gave up.
Fuck Blizzard and fuck whoever is setting up the Captchas
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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Since I started using a privacy respecting browser and moved to GNU/Linux, my whole life is captchas.
Try using a VPN on top of that.
It makes sense that VPN users see CAPTCHAs though... By design, it's hard to differentiate an attacker from a legitimate user, and there's a LOT of cyberattacks that go via VPNs.
That's also why banks and online stores don't like VPNs. It's hard to tell if it's you logging in vs if it's an attacker using the same VPN as you.
I mean properly you could say that about most any public network though. So far I haven't had to deal with such but I wonder what the experience for those who's ISP sticks them behind a CGN is on that front.
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There are some really awful captchas out there. I miss the days of just typing out some stretched and tilted numbers and letters.
OTOH there are captchas that you just need to check a box today. It boggles my mind this is not more widespread.
"No, let's make our users play a fucking puzzle for a minute before granting them access".
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Firefox and Linux have not really caused any more captchas than I had on windows, using a VPN on the other hand is horrible.
Captchas is one of the reason why I ditched Google as my default engine because I started having nightmares about blurry low res pictures of motorcycles and busses and pedestrian crossings broken up into squares.
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You have not seen captchas if you have not seen TOR Marketplace logins. Sometimes it takes me 5-7 tries to get in. After that I feel really human.
Could you share more Information? How do these captchas look like and what are the tasks?
I am just curious, as I probably won’t even lurk on these hidden services.
First rule of TOR Marketplace logins; don't describe TOR Marketplace logins.
Dayum, I must be glowing like a star
They are a mix of small sorting games with a time limit and visual quizzes that can get really hard to solve. There was one where you have to rotate three small round pictures inside another picture to match the background picture that is basically just noise. Every market has its own multistep captcha system and they change quite a lot. Some are creative, some are just nightmare. The hardest ones are those where you have to solve multiple rotations of miniature „pictures“ that are like ultra close ups of things with an extreme compression and noise and somehow you have to decide if they are houses or bridges. The compression is so bad, you can barely even make out what those rotated 30x30 grey pixel smush are. And there are 6 of them you have to solve in a certain time. I ran into timeouts constantly and have to start over.
Thanks, very interesting!
Found the robot ^
I wonder how much they get paid for training the model, or if it's free in exchange for the captcha service.
I think it's free, based purely on the way people talk about the service.
When solving a captcha becomes a Myst puzzle, go fuck yourself.
Recaptcha will keep giving you problems forever when it has an error or fails you, so that's always fun.
HOW MANY BIKES DO YOU WANT ME TO FIND?!!!
I once went through 8 or so rounds of picking busses...
“Train our ai for us in order to login”
Get fucked.
you're at least a decade late for that concern. why do you think chatgpt is so good at solving recaptcha?
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that is what I've just assumed had been happening for at least a decade now.
And then you try the audio one and it's completely impossible. One time we had 4 people trying to listen and guess what the answer was and we all got it wrong a dozen times before we got through.
You should see how bad the Walmart website can get. They have this "press and hold" thing that basically shows up every page refresh when I'm at the store checking my shopping list.
And it's not a "press for a second", it's like 5-10 seconds... every. single. time.
I mean, if they don't want me to be a customer anymore, find another way to tell me!
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I think there's script somewhere in internet that can bypass captcha
I use the bots to defeat the bots that defeat bots
I use an VPN and its way worse. It is actually slightly better when I switched to a dedicated IP VPN. So, it would ask for the CAPCHA once and then never again. For those wondering, I use Torguard via wireguard on my PFsense.
ran into that a few days ago. 20 fucking steps and THEN IT VALIDATED my email address I entered previous and said I couldn't use an @duck domain.
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So at some point I was to afraid to ask (on Reddit) but, uh… the mildly part is sarcasm right? Cuz’ fuck that shit!
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Reminds me of that pokemon episode where ash and everyone was at school lol.
A jigglypuff seen from above
That's the one haha.
Maybe I'm the crazy person, but those types of captchas don't bother me. I'll gladly take them over doing a normal captcha on TOR while trying to log in to certain services, only to have entered the wrong password and wasted maybe 5-10 minutes of my time per attempt (usually 2 or more attempts needed).
I think they are tougher for people with poor spatial reasoning. I don't know what it looks like to them, but all the ones I see people complain about look just as super obvious as all the other ones to me.
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We need a YouTube tutorial
Drone training.
Thank God there are others who have found these stupid captchas. I thought i was being flagged as a boarderline bot when nobody knew what I was talking about and assumed something completely different.
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