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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

#81

The box has made browsing using TOR insufferable! It fusses and makes me click storefronts and traffic lights until I run out of patience and close out of whatever webpage I was trying to visit. I assume it has to do with a lack of Google cookies on the browser, essentially punishing me for trying to protect my privacy.

https://github.com/dessant/buster

A very good addon against the shit from Cloudflare and Google.

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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post #71
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This might surprise you, but it actually has to do with what traffic coming out of TOR looks like. Well in excess of 90% of traffic coming out of TOR is spam, bots, malicious, or some combination! Google isn't going out of their way to punish you for trying to protect your privacy. They're trying to stop unwanted traffic. By unfortunate happenstance, you appear to be disguising yourself in the exact same way a shocki…

Google used to HATE my VPN, couldn't do anything on Google through it without a dozen damn pics to choose from. My VPN must have gotten white listed (or cracked down on some of their traffic patterns) because that stopped.

Or did they just get better at fingerprinting us?

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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I feel a sense of dread whenever I see this box. Is it going to let me through, or am I going to spend the next few minutes futilely clicking signs and lights, only to give up and leave the site?

Glad I’m not the only one. I thought something was wrong with my brain. Or that I might be a robot.

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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post #80

I feel a sense of dread whenever I see this box. Is it going to let me through, or am I going to spend the next few minutes futilely clicking signs and lights, only to give up and leave the site?

Someone is suing Apple for making 2FA too annoying, I only hope Google can be next for the significantly greater time being wasted on their stupid CAPTCHA. Why should any of us even care if someone accesses a website programmatically?

It's almost definitely not my problem, and it's not even necessarily a problem it's just a way to access pages, made easier by Google in fact because it's a perfectly legitimate way to navigate the internet and Google themselves depend on it. If anyone wants to discourage it just provide an official API to use instead of pages, which are a defacto API for humans.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/apple-hit-two-factor-law...

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This might surprise you, but it actually has to do with what traffic coming out of TOR looks like. Well in excess of 90% of traffic coming out of TOR is spam, bots, malicious, or some combination! Google isn't going out of their way to punish you for trying to protect your privacy. They're trying to stop unwanted traffic. By unfortunate happenstance, you appear to be disguising yourself in the exact same way a shocki…

Not just for Tor. I use Firefox with a few basic extensions (Privacy badger, uBlock, Google Container) yet every time I am presented with having to pick out traffic lights over and over and over again. I usually have about 5 or 6 "challenges" before I give up and use another site. My timezone has not changed, my IP address and rough location has not changed, my screensize has not changed, my broadband speed has not c…

I think quora over states what Google looks at by a wide margin, just try to access a captcha in incognito, they won't have access to as much info as they do on you and yet you're still presented with the same level of captcha (if not more of them, which is to be expected)

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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The box has made browsing using TOR insufferable! It fusses and makes me click storefronts and traffic lights until I run out of patience and close out of whatever webpage I was trying to visit. I assume it has to do with a lack of Google cookies on the browser, essentially punishing me for trying to protect my privacy.

Well OK, for Tor it is understandable. But I got the same every time i launched GTA V

That’s because Rockstar had/has a huge problem with stolen accounts from bots using wordlists to brute force passwords.

The difficulty is probably cranked all the way up

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Is noscript still the best for that? I haven't looked at other options in a long time.

Personally I prefer uMatrix. It has a nice CSS-ish quality to it, e.g. you can whitelist random subdomains like *.cloudfront.net _if_ the root page is a domain you trust already. It's still a pain to get rolling at first but it feels more friendly to me than noscript

uMatrix is a serious pain in the ass with reCapcha however, and for any site that embeds video. Plus it treats every site as unique so you have to redo the green boxes on every site.
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