Re:Blocking via an Unsolvable CAPTCHA
by Tijdreiziger on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:36AM
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That happens to me when browsing normally on my home Internet connection (no VPN). I think it's because Google thinks I'm a robot (I frequently don't even touch my mouse and check the CAPTCHA box using my keyboard, or just move my mouse cursor in a straight line to the CAPTCHA), so it appears we've entered an era where you're punished for being too efficient at using a Web browser.
I do not blame Google, they do what they do for their own benefit. However, when I do get to solve a never ending captcha in a mobile app, while being logged with a user account, while buying a cinema ticket—I get really pissed. Not at Google, but at whoever thought that putting a captcha there was a good idea.
These Google CAPTCHA's are deployed all over the internet, but you mostly won't notice them until you use a VPN. When you do, you get them at what seems to be their strictest setting: multiple rounds of 'click the object that is a car/storefront/road/mountain/road sign/bus/river', where all pictures clicked are replaced via a fade-out-fade-in that lasts about five seconds before you can continue evaluating the new picture.