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This is a cool idea. But yesterday cloudflare made me recognize 3 bicycles, 2 motorcycles, 3 fire hydrants, 2 traffic lights, and 1 staircase...all for ONE sit

This is a cool idea. But yesterday cloudflare made me recognize 3 bicycles, 2 motorcycles, 3 fire hydrants, 2 traffic lights, and 1 staircase...all for ONE site verification. If something like this is going to be the norm, I'm never talking to anyone ever again.

archsurface 3y ago
Sometimes I suspect I'm caught in a loop, and just abandon.
- throwanem 3y ago
  It's not a loop, it's just seeing how much free labeling it can shake out of you.
- _djo_ 3y ago
  Depending on the implementation, that's intentional if you fail the check for whatever reason. It doesn't return an error status or page to allow what it thinks is the automated attacker from trying another approach, it just loops you through the process indefinitely.
- mikequinlan 3y ago
  If you can't pass the captcha, you need to ask yourself if you are really a human being or if you have just been programmed to believe that you are.
- tomwheeler 3y ago
  I abandon as soon as I see Cloudflare, since my experience has shown that it seldom works correctly and ends up wasting my time anyway.
rand_flip_bit 3y ago
> 3 bicycles, 2 motorcycles, 3 fire hydrants, 2 traffic lights, and 1 staircase...all for ONE site verification. That sounds more like Google's captcha system. I've never seen Cloudflare Turnstile do this on any of my systems/browsers.
nend 3y ago
I pay for a vpn service and whenever I'm on it google makes me go through a ton of captchas before I can search. The first time it happened I assumed I must've kept getting one wrong, it made me go through 10 or so. The next time I just quit after 5 and started using bing. I suppose it's been the policy of a lot of big tech companies for a while, but it's just cheaper for them to lose x percent of users than it is to allow y percent of bots.
- bonton89 3y ago
  Some of them just detect your IP and dump you in an endless loop. Sort of like a captcha shadow ban. I suppose they might let you through after 30 loops or something, but only a bot would last that long.
- lobito14 2y ago
  Use the audio solution instead.
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archsurface 3y ago

Sometimes I suspect I'm caught in a loop, and just abandon.

throwanem 3y ago
It's not a loop, it's just seeing how much free labeling it can shake out of you.
_djo_ 3y ago
Depending on the implementation, that's intentional if you fail the check for whatever reason. It doesn't return an error status or page to allow what it thinks is the automated attacker from trying another approach, it just loops you through the process indefinitely.
mikequinlan 3y ago
If you can't pass the captcha, you need to ask yourself if you are really a human being or if you have just been programmed to believe that you are.
tomwheeler 3y ago
I abandon as soon as I see Cloudflare, since my experience has shown that it seldom works correctly and ends up wasting my time anyway.

rand_flip_bit 3y ago

> 3 bicycles, 2 motorcycles, 3 fire hydrants, 2 traffic lights, and 1 staircase...all for ONE site verification. That sounds more like Google's captcha system. I've never seen Cloudflare Turnstile do this on any of my systems/browsers.

nend 3y ago

I pay for a vpn service and whenever I'm on it google makes me go through a ton of captchas before I can search. The first time it happened I assumed I must've kept getting one wrong, it made me go through 10 or so. The next time I just quit after 5 and started using bing. I suppose it's been the policy of a lot of big tech companies for a while, but it's just cheaper for them to lose x percent of users than it is to allow y percent of bots.

bonton89 3y ago
Some of them just detect your IP and dump you in an endless loop. Sort of like a captcha shadow ban. I suppose they might let you through after 30 loops or something, but only a bot would last that long.
lobito14 2y ago
Use the audio solution instead.

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