Re:The Trouble with Tor
by throwaway7767 on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:41AM
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> I have never successfully completed a captcha served up by cloudflare (and thus Google) on Tor. They are fiendishly difficult to the point I suspected the mechanism is broken.
Have you tried recently? They have gotten way better. There was a time not long ago where I would have agreed with you (the CAPTCHAs were literally impossible for a human in most cases).
CloudFlare has toned the CAPTCHAs down a lot recently, they're now presenting image classification tasks (select street signs/bodies of water/storefronts/cactuses/...), and in my experience, my success rate is close to 100% on those.
Admittedly they still make me solve three of them and they get tiring, but at least they're not completely cutting off access to Tor users anymore.
Have you tried recently? They have gotten way better. There was a time not long ago where I would have agreed with you (the CAPTCHAs were literally impossible for a human in most cases).
CloudFlare has toned the CAPTCHAs down a lot recently, they're now presenting image classification tasks (select street signs/bodies of water/storefronts/cactuses/...), and in my experience, my success rate is close to 100% on those.
Admittedly they still make me solve three of them and they get tiring, but at least they're not completely cutting off access to Tor users anymore.