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.

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userbinator 21 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 4 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".

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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 38 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.

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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.