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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It doesn't really matter, they don't expect you to get everything right on these. While most of the time you need to get mostly right (Google is using these to train their AI so often they are not sure themselves), they are also looking at other things, like how you move your mouse, and the cookies that they use to spy on people to determine the probability of you being a human. If you pass a certain threshold they let you through, and you can do it even if you miss a square.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and the cookies that they use to spy on people to determine the probability of you being a human

which is why I assume, as a VPN user who rejects as many cookies as possible, I constantly have to do 5-6 fucking captchas in a row, sometimes more, before it'll let me through.. I can't be that bad at doing them lol

Is it frustrating? Fuck yeah. Will it get me to change my behaviour and drop those measures so that the companies getting in my way can collect more of my data? Fuck no.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you tried using an automatic CAPTCHA solver (e.g. Buster)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, will give it a look, thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I will have to look into this as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, as soon as I moved to a privacy-focused browser, pi-hole, and VPN, I started getting a ton more captchas and they had many more in a row.

I consider it a badge of honor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I also started getting way more once I moved from chrome to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I use a trackball mouse for disability reasons. I have to actively slow my cursor movement to a crawl and deliberately slowly click each square otherwise I fail captcha's

it's infuriating