• Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Ironically they’re a cybercriminal’s best friend since if they layer multiple of them together on your site they can annoy online enforcers (and in the case of scrapers, keep out) who might otherwise shut the site down.

        They don’t work so well Against targeted attacks but many searches when finding infringing sites are just searches for sites that are infringing.

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      11 months ago

      Anyone reading this, ALWAYS DO THE AUDIO ACCESSIBILITY ONE

      It’s SO much easier and never has you do like fifty.

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      11 months ago

      Be that as it may, OP should probably ideally be able to identify a bicycle without breaking the system.

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        11 months ago

        It’s never really about identifying anything, recaptcha cares way more about data it has on you to determine if you’re a human or not. If you’ve ever tried to google search with a VPN or Tor it makes it really fuckin annoying

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    11 months ago

    You see this all the time on a VPN or Tor. Which is super hypocritical of them because the whole goddamn point of a CAPTCHA is to determine whether you’re a human or not when it is uncertain. IP banning you from a captcha of all things because an IP is sending “automated queries” defeats the whole point, the site itself is literally using your service so it can selectively let humans in while blocking automated traffic, if they wanted to ban certain IPs, they can do that directly.

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    11 months ago

    One time, I was signing up to something with a VPN, and reCaptcha had me doing the captchas 10 times. Never in my life did I have to do so many captchas. Fuck google.

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      11 months ago

      So if captchas such at identifying humans why are we still using them? Just to train googles own personal AI for free? (technically not even, people pay them for recaptcha)

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    11 months ago

    The same thing happened to me. Over and over. Turns out I actually remembered my password and didn’t have to reset it.