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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by rightbyte on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:07PM (#24921307)
Relying on Google's Spying-as-a-Service tooling is not very FOSS at all.

There need to be other ways to reach out to users who block Google.

Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by encom on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:23PM (#24921517)
I immediately back out whenever encounter Recaptcha.

The other day I was forced to endure it, because I wanted to delete my ancient Minecraft account, since Microsoft pulled a Facebook and are going to require a Microsoft account to play going forwards. Without exaggeration, it took me 15 minutes of training Google surveillance AI (had to solve it three times), for Recaptcha to let me in. I guess Google really hates me.

Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by dalmo3 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:50PM (#24925523)
Yesterday I spent the longest ever with a recaptcha, about 2-3 minutes, at a frigging checkout page. I decided to endure it just because I really needed that ergonomic kb+mouse combo.

Hopefully they'll allow me to solve captchas for longer without getting a RSI.

Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by wolco2 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:12PM (#24922170)
Are you sure you are human?
Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by myself248 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:34PM (#24922445)
I'm human enough, and I've been a licensed driver long enough, to recognize that rumble strips at the side of a road are not crosswalks. But apparently enough bots thought they were that the system is now trained on that 'fact', and I as a human am forced to misidentify rumble strips as crosswalks to pass as human.

It's bizarre.

Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by ignoranceprior on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:19AM (#24930153)
ReCaptcha also thinks that mailboxes are parking meters, for some reason.
Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by encom on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:29PM (#24922371)
Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by Kwpolska on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:43PM (#24924452)
Try reCAPTCHA’s audio version (the headphones icon), it’s much easier than guessing what images it wants you to click (if you speak English, have headphones, and are not hearing-impaired).
Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by WalterSear on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:41PM (#24923879)
This sounds like it has the potential to be a modern version of the credit score: avoid it enough, and you become persona non grata. That is, for more than 15 minutes.
Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by db48x on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:11PM (#24923578)
I do the same thing.
Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by meibo on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:23PM (#24926091)
You're doing something very wrong if you take 15 minutes to solve these and aren't on Tor. Even on public VPN and Firefox this doesn't happen usually. I know people that pick the wrong options to fuck with their models though, and then go on HN to complain about recaptcha being annoying.
Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by randunel on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:54AM (#24929960)
I have similar issues. I do not pick the wrong options. It also doesn't take me too long to solve the captchas, leading to "too many queries from your ip address". This is what internet users deal with when blocking most google services.