hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by noja on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:13PM (#25214356)

I find that when I solve a Captcha too quickly, I get another one. And another one. And another one. So instead, I wait a short time, click a few wrong boxes, then enter the correct Captcha. Maybe this is part of it, but I don't like it.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by Normille on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:30PM (#25214516)

If the Buster plugin can't solve the reCaptcha for me [It does fail from time to time] then I just don't bother visiting that website. Or if it's a site I need to use, then I'll try again later and see if I either get let in without being asked to jump through hoops, or get a reCaptcha Buster can solve.

I simply refuse to waste my time and drive up my blood pressure by doing unpaid training work for Google's AI, in order to visit some crappy website. I really wish more people would start boycotting any site which uses reCaptcha [or its derivatives], so we could get rid of this blight on the internet.

I've spotted this new hCaptcha junk show up recently on a couple of sites I used to frequent. I don't visit those sites any more. So well done webmasters. Apparently annoying the shit out of visitors to your site tends to drive them away. Who'da thunk it?!

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by bluGill on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:20PM (#25214923)

I sent a email to my representative, which got my automatically added to her newsletter. But the unsubscribe link doesn't work without solving one...

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by account42 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:09AM (#25218259)

Where? That would not be legal in many countries and I suggest you try reporting it.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by mnw21cam on Thursday November 26, 2020 @05:56AM (#25218812)

Let me guess... You can try reporting it to the authorities, but they need you to solve a CAPTCHA first.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by bluGill on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:49AM (#25219552)

As in US house of representives. Cheri Busto to be exact in case someone works with her.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by Aeolun on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:39PM (#25215850)

Can you provide an alternative that doesn’t involve my contact form getting spammed to hell with crap?

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by account42 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:12AM (#25218277)

I have my email address listed in plain text on my website and with a simple regular expression to to reject the standard pharma/bitcount/etc. spams at the SMTP level based on subject there is at most a couple of spam emails pair day. Hardly takes any time to go through that.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by dsanduleac on Thursday November 26, 2020 @02:30AM (#25217739)

Use the recaptcha after form submission only, rather than on the whole website. Then at least the user is incentivised to do it as a last step of a process, as opposed to being stopped in their tracks before they even got to visit the website.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by villux on Thursday November 26, 2020 @02:19AM (#25217682)

What service are you using? Some browser plugin I assume?

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