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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?

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Post by xiphias2 »

Kalium wrote: post #25
xiphias2 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks really nice. It should be default for the TOR browser for sure, if just a few people use it, it decreases the anonimity set.

Nah, it was released back in 2017. I've seen it discussed periodically ever since. The issue with just doing memory-consuming work client-side is that it only marginally slows down spamming. Spammers tend to use compromised machines they don't own. Unless you can make it prohibitively expensive to calculate something using machines you don't pay for - perhaps not a trivial ask - you wind up needing a different set of…

Cool, I'll try it out the next time I have a problem with using TOR. You're right that ARGON2 doesn't help if CPUs/RAM are free, it just makes parallelization hard.

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

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Post by modzu »

djflutt3rshy wrote: post #2

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.

get this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captch...

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

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Post by jiveturkey »

CodeMage wrote: post #11

Is there any place where I can find a comprehensive list of countermeasures to stop Google from recording and analyzing all the stuff that the article lists? According to the article: It turns out they record and analyse: - Your computer’s timezone and time - Your IP address and rough location - Your screen size and resolution - What browser you’re using - What plugins you’re using - How long the page took to display…

ANY website can record and analyze all this. Not just google. There are only 2 countermeasures available:

1. turn off javascript (effective for all websites)

2. block access to google in your router/firewall. (effective only for google)

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

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Post by modzu »

the answer is basically wrong. robots can and do. captcha has become an AI training tool and it now blocks humans as a consequence. the convenient side-effect being a nudge to those humans to change their behaviour in such a way as to never need captcha and thus support google's business: enable cookies, login to google, use unique identifiers (IP), etc

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

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Post by michaelmrose »

djflutt3rshy wrote: post #2

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.

Have you considered an out of country vpn? The privacy protection may be similar for most common browsing.

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

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Post by skykooler »

Kalium wrote: post #7
djflutt3rshy wrote: post #2

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.

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 seems to do the same even if you check the box while in an incognito window; I doubt the issue is TOR itself, but rather the lack of tracking data that Google has on that particular session.

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Post by mtgx »

djflutt3rshy wrote: post #2

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.

It's insufferable even without using Tor. And it only gets more insufferable every few months, it seems.

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Post by buboard »

djflutt3rshy wrote: post #2

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
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