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Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced by Nextgrid on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:34AM (#21562559)
That is a "feature" of ReCAPTCHA, and I believe there might even be a patent on it. The idea is that if you are sure it's a bot and want to deny them access you still waste their resources by making them solve impossible captchas.
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Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced by errnoh on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:58AM (#21563328)
As a non-chrome user things have been getting a lot worse lately. I've also noticed more and more pages using recaptcha even there's no clear way for bots to spam content.

Are people really that eager to send google all traffic information? Is this really the best solution? Couldn't one for example parse the actual content that the bots are trying to create and filter/ban them based on that? I believe spam detection is quite effective these days.

This whole captcha hell is making web really annoying for normal users and mostly just benefits google.

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Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced by throwaway58235 on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:30AM (#21563199)
It also has the side effect of making the user experience on competing browsers significantly worse.
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Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced by dmos62 on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:33AM (#21563219)
It also happens if you have extensive anti-fingerprinting measures in place. It doesn't go on forever though. 1 minute of captachas or so.
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Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced by aplacelikethis on Monday November 18, 2019 @06:35AM (#21563481)
Not true. I've spent 5+ minutes trying to get through this captcha system multiple times, never getting through.

It really fucks with you when you're on TOR, especially.

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Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced by thih9 on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:12AM (#21562677)
> if you are sure it’s a bot

Looks like it happens not only in that case.

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Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced by rvense on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:56AM (#21562842)
Being sure and being wrong are not mutually exclusive, unfortunately.
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Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced by aplacelikethis on Monday November 18, 2019 @06:36AM (#21563486)
That's called "slander". I hope whoever invented, implemented and OK'd this loses their home.
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Re:Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced by aplacelikethis on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:47AM (#21574106)
Right, it's not. It's only bad faith so retaliation is unjust.
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