Why Captchas have gotten so difficult

Post by Cacti » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 5:03 PM UTC

tootahe45 wrote: post #37

Cacti wrote: post #17

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I agree with you, but, to be clear, the issue isn't VPNs, it's that the VPNs you are using are also used by spammers/bots/etc. or a large amount of other people. If you set up your own VPN somewhere that is just used by you and your family (for example), you will never run into this issue. As a case in point, the same issue crops up with lots of users going through the same corporate proxy. And it's the same reason t…

You could just pay double ($10 or so) for a VPN that logs, has less users, more IPs, and should be able to avoid these issues.

Post by wl » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 5:11 PM UTC

Cacti wrote: post #32

wl wrote: post #30

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I run a VPN from home for using at coffee shops and the like. While the proliferation of HTTPS has made sketchy networks less of a problem, DNS is still leaky.

You can run the DNS through your VPN and have it use secure DNS outside of your home ISP, and then cache the DNS results on a DNS server at home. It's not perfect but leaks will end up being pretty minimal, even in accidental situations.

Post by bennofs » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

Cacti wrote: post #12

hedora wrote: post #4

> Google wouldn’t say what factors go into that score, other than that Google observes what a bunch of “good traffic” on a site looks like A few days ago, I signed up for some service on a new-ish laptop, and it made me pass the storefront captcha three separate times. This is yet another example of the social credit score being implemented in the US; in this case punishing users for opting out of continuous tracking…

While I see your point, social credit is not tracking, it is tracking with legal, economic, and political consequences. Given that the consequences to you of opting out of this tracking are little more than a minor inconvenience of your time, comparing it to the nightmare that is the social credit system is laughable. And, I would add, you're in part trivializing the horrendous impact of the social credit system by m…

Post by sbierwagen » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

marcosdumay wrote: post #42

sbierwagen wrote: post #29

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http://jwmason.org/slackwire/on-money-debt-trust-and-central... >People get very excited about China’s social credit system, a sort of generalization of the “permanent record” we use to intimidate schoolchildren. And ok, it does sound kind of dystopian. If your rating is too low, you aren’t allowed to fly on a plane. Think about that — a number assigned to every person, adjusted based on somebody’s judgement of your…

A bank account is a system where the entire society decides how much it's worth. Your government does not control the contents of your bank account.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 6:00 PM UTC

tootahe45 wrote: post #35

leni536 wrote: post #31

Google: Hey, you don't have any Google login/session cookies? Not even one from a previous login (yeah, you can't fully log out)? That's wrong! Here, click on the traffic lights for 5 minutes! Or have one of those super slow fade-in fade-out captchas!

Been testing captchas inadvertently quite a bit in fresh installs across multiple VMs, from what I can tell it has nothing to do with whether you have cookies or privacy configurations, it comes down to whether you use Chromium or use a shared IP. If you use Firefox even without privacy configs, expect to spend 3x the time as Chrome, that's not even including the fact that those fading images load 5x slower on Firefo…