Comment by cameronh90
3 days ago
Not sure if it's just me or a consequence of the increase in AI scraping, but I'm now being asked to solve CAPTCHAs on almost every site. Sometimes for every page I load. I'm now solving them literally dozens of times a day. I'm using Windows, no VPN, regular consumer IP address with no weird traffic coming from it.
As you say, they are also getting increasingly difficult. Click the odd one out, mental rotations, what comes next, etc. - it sometimes feels like an IQ test. A new type that seems to be becoming popular recently is a sequence of distorted characters and letters, but with some more blurry/distorted ones, seemingly with the expectation that I'm only supposed to be able to see the clearer ones and if I can see the blurrier ones then I must be a bot. So what this means is for each letter I need to try and make a judgement as to whether it's one I was supposed to see or not.
Another issue is the problems are often in US English, but I'm from the UK.
For me it was installing linux. I don't know if it's my agent or my fresh/blank cookie container or what, but when I switched to linux the captchas became incessant.
Have you tried some of the browser extensions that solve captchas for you? Whenever captchas get bad I enable an auto solver
This is funny. So the captchas to detect scrips vs humans are so complex for a human to solve but are easy for a program?
It's never been about making things that actually work. It's always been about ticking the box (ironic) that says you've implemented the thing.