Comment by Gigachad
2 months ago
I looked this up and realised it’s the page I’d seen briefly on a range of websites lately. It’s not annoyed me at all. Not nearly as much as having to complete captchas with slow refreshing tiles.
2 months ago
I looked this up and realised it’s the page I’d seen briefly on a range of websites lately. It’s not annoyed me at all. Not nearly as much as having to complete captchas with slow refreshing tiles.
A fun fact about Google captchas: they've often decided whether you will succeed or fail the captcha before you do the captcha.
This seems nonsensical. Care to elaborate?
If Google determines you're an undesirable user, doing the captcha is just an exercise to waste your time.
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The captcha itself (matching pictures to text) is mostly for ML training data. I think pass/fail is mostly based on heuristics like how you moved your mouse which could get analyzed before you complete the captcha. https://www.techradar.com/news/captcha-if-you-can-how-youve-...
reason why is 1. Google and others really needed the training data, and 2. it probably helped justify the cost of providing the captcha service for free worldwide (old free tier was 1M/mo)
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I implemented something similar for my bot defences. If headless chrome is detected you still get the same anubis-style PoW but even if you submit the right answer you get rejected.
I've usually been more annoyed at the surprise dissonance of "was that an anime girl on kernel.org?" than annoyed at the delay.