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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by sjwright on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:32PM (#19158584)
As a webmaster I can confirm that I hard block all TOR traffic for this exact reason. 90% of this traffic is malicious robotic junk of some form.

Also, I’m just not interested in the remaining 10% "legit" traffic from people who are aggressively paranoid about their privacy. Almost all of them ended up being dickheads who were using TOR to abuse other members of our community.

To the people who think every website should treat TOR users with respect, please understand that you are intentionally making yourself indistinguishable from the mountain of robotic junk, abuse and human dickheads. It's not my fault that you have chosen to do this, and it's not my job to provide you with tools to prove you're not a dickhead.

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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by sjwright on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:42PM (#19158641)
To the people voting me down, please understand that I am relaying factual information about my specific experience as webmaster of various large-ish regional websites. If you don't like the facts, voting them down won't change them.

...or maybe voting me down will change the facts.

Yeah, that's totally going to work.

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