Re:Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to ...
by grishka on Monday June 20, 2022 @09:26PM
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Modern captchas have gotten really annoying, too. You used to be able to just effortlessly type characters from a distorted image in 5 seconds, but now proving that you're an actual real human is so much work I'm tempted to automate it.
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Re:Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to ...
by yakubin on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:58AM
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My personal worst experience with captchas is Vultr: every time I go to their page from my Linux desktop, I need to solve a recaptcha. And if I don't do it within ~3 seconds, the page reloads and I need to start over again. I bet there are more robots than humans who can solve it in such a short time. You need to read the instructions, pattern match 9 photos... twice... in 3 seconds. It doesn't happen when I visit the Vultr's page from my iPhone though. When I get a spare moment, I will move my VPS to another, less obnoxious provider (maybe even Amazon).