| ▲ | getpokedagain 5 hours ago |
| Stop visiting sites and using services that use reCAPTCHA. Problem solved. |
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| ▲ | tardedmeme 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| With the new reCAPTCHA this is going to happen because most human visitors will actually be unable to pass the CAPTCHA. It will be interesting to see whether this makes websites ditch reCAPTCHA or whether they literally just don't care about having customers, an attitude that seems to be getting more and more common every day. |
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| ▲ | papercruncher 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have been unable to give my money to Home Depot, REI and a growing list of online retailers because they use Akamai EdgeSuite, which just assumes I am a bot and 403s on protected API calls. This happens consistently on any IP and any browser on my Linux desktop/laptop. | | |
| ▲ | userbinator 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Home Depot at least has a physical presence, which you can go and directly give some much-needed feedback to. | | |
| ▲ | tardedmeme 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It has a zero percent chance of reaching anyone who can do anything about it. You could try handwriting and posting a letter to their CEO. I think that sometimes works. Probably not very often but there are more than zero CEOs who read those letters. |
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| ▲ | spystath 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There are not enough words to describe how much I hate Akamai EdgeSuite. So many random validation loops and 403s across different physical computers, different operating systems, different connections and even countries. A couple of services I need use it and it's 30% I'll make it past their stupid "protection". | |
| ▲ | drew870mitchell 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Same, i'm doing a kitchen reno and gave up on Home Depot because of this |
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| ▲ | raincole 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > most human visitors will actually be unable to pass the CAPTCHA Most human visitors will never ever notice the change. reCAPTCHA is completely invisible for most human visitors because they are allowed to pass just by fingerprint. It's not like an average user is going to have to scan a QR code every time they visit a site via web browser. If it were like this then it would be a non-issue because no sane website would adopt this system. But it isn't. | |
| ▲ | g-b-r 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | One problem with these things is that businesses have minimal visibility on the amount of users they lose. On the opposite, if they see reports of many visitors not completing the captcha, they're likely to think "Wow so many bots!!! This defense nowadays is indispensable..!". Sometimes you need to pass a captcha even to contact them (if you want to tell them that you can't pass their captcha). | | |
| ▲ | jbvlkt 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wanted to give money to charity and they have whole form protected by recaptcha. So I would have to allow all my personal information and amount donated sent to google (and agree with google terms for data processing). I have contacted them but they did not understand why this is problem they just wanted to protect themself against bots. IMHO unless those things are not disallowed by antitrust laws we have lost. | |
| ▲ | bar000n 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | i say technofeudalism, not sure i know what i'm writing about though | |
| ▲ | chadgpt2 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Luckily the marketplace of money will ensure that businesses who block their customers shrink and businesses who don't block their customers grow. |
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| ▲ | lxgr 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'd love to, but I'd not be able to visit many sites anymore thanks to Cloudflare... |
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| ▲ | g-b-r 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah, live in a cave, and problem solved. However much I hate it, right now among the sites using reCAPTCHA there are many that I strongly want to use. Let's find a better solution please |
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| ▲ | flatIronSteak 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Let's find a better solution please Is there an argument here that Google is creating a monopoly? Could this be challenged on similar grounds that forced Microsoft to recommend other browsers to users on Windows? | | |
| ▲ | KPGv2 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | There is, but at least in the US neither party cares. They want to get rid of anonymity online, one to throw anyone who googles "trans" in jail, and the other because their biggest donors are tech companies that want to denonymize everyone. Our antitrust laws have been toothless for decades, and both parties love billionaires controlling the rest of us with an iron fist. GrapheneOS is looking more and more worth the headache that my limited free time generally does not like. I don't need Google to know my smut fanfiction is written by my IRL. | | |
| ▲ | ggiigg 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Felt same way about GrapheneOS but a few friends set it up so i gave it a try. It is easy to install and use. As evidence, I gave my 70 year old father one and he loves it. |
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| ▲ | g-b-r 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | sieabahlpark, I probably hate this more than you, you misunderstood | |
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| ▲ | reaperducer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Stop visiting sites and using services that use reCAPTCHA. Problem solved. No. Bigger problem created, since there are innumerable government, health care, and educational web sites that use reCAPTCHA. I'm not going to give up reading the test results from my doctor because of some simplistic ideologue decides that it's "problem solved." |
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| ▲ | ethin 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The other problem with this is that there are few CAPTCHA alternatives. CF turnstile is one, but of course that means Cloudflare owns even more of the web. HCaptcha is inaccessible and actively discriminatory against individuals with disabilities and refuses to change, to the point that I suspect the only way that they will do anything is to file a class-action against them and sue them into the ground. And I... Can't think of anything else. Other than to just get rid of Captchas entirely. | |
| ▲ | majorchord 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > I'm not going to give up reading the test results from my doctor You could just call them. | |
| ▲ | unethical_ban 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I agree, and I think CAPTCHA is a disservice on public websites. |
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