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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by xbar on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:33AM (#25229434)
It would be racist and anti-Afro to suggest that either you are a bot or a scammer for failing all your captchas. Also it would be offensive and inappropriate. And it would be outside the scope of this topic, and it would be a decidedly ad hominem comment when you should be celebrated for standing up to such narrowly contrived captchas.

As an aside, how do you like American security questions? "What was the make and model of the car in which you had your first kiss?"

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by sgerenser on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:42AM (#25229515)
Security questions are completely pointless anyway and you should just always treat them as an extra set of passwords and store them in your password manager. I have changed from using randomly generated items to vaguely plausible sounding nonsense instead since sometimes you have to actually read these things back to a human.
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