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Re:mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites by ghayes on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:06PM (#37058269)
I've had this problem a lot when I use a VPN. You're served a captcha that is impossible (I choose all of the correct squares and it still fails), and then I'm given a captcha with the ultra-slow click and reload images. At this point, I think it's more of an IP rate limiter than a human-bot detector.
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Re:mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites by eviks on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:22PM (#37058354)
but then some other services don't degrade like that and still offer you some easy 2-step puzzle "rotate a pic until panda is not upside down" or "find a panda"
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