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Cloudflare Unveils Free Privacy-Friendly Replacement to the Annoying CAPTCHA System
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this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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CAPTCHAs have been broken for quite a while now.
Google’s reCAPTCHA in particular is terrible and I fail it about half the time trying to guess what it thinks counts as part of a bicycle or not.
Have you de-Googled or something? They only really nail you when you don't have a signed-in Google account with real-world web usage, particularly if your connection originates from a flagged IP.
Oh yes, how dare I visit a website without letting Google track me. Better block the user with a fake test in the name of security.
Some VPNs will definitely trigger reCaptcha, even if signed on to Google. I just have to hop over to another IP and suddenly everything is fine again.
I've noticed I get the stupid recaptha way more since I swapped to Firefox. Even though I'm logged in to a Google account.
I get it a lot when I'm using our work VPN (which shows up as an AWS IP address). I guess if you're using a VPN or a less reputable ISP you'll probably get stung more often.