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Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by solardev on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:15PM (#42577691)
How does it get around captchas?
Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by tedivm on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:22PM (#42577750)
If they don't think you're suspicious they don't make you do the captchas, and as others have mentioned you can always outsource it to captcha farms. There are also AI models which do a fairly decent amount, and since most captchas let you repeat attempts with new patterns you can have a pretty high error rate to get past them. Then there's the ADA, which requires accessibility- many captchas have an audio component as a backup and those are easy to interpret by models.
Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by gruez on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:26PM (#42577798)
Cloudflare turnstile isn't even a captcha. The user just has to tick a box. Behind the scenes there's a javascript challenge to make sure you're vaguely a browser and not some script a bazillion requests per minute.
Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by xdfgh1112 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @03:32PM (#42578535)
It's also used for proof of work as many scrapers are using thousands of IPs but only a few CPUs
Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by michaelmior on Thursday January 02, 2025 @03:16PM (#42578348)
curl-impersonate doesn't solve CAPTCHAs, but the goal is to look enough like a human that Cloudflare doesn't present a CAPTCHA in the first place.
Re:Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my ... by gjsman-1000 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:17PM (#42577706)
You pay contract workers in a third world country a tiny amount of money per day, to spend all day clicking boxes.