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I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.
I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?
I’m frustrated by how Lemmy.world treats VPN traffic, too, even if I sympathize with the underlying challenge they face. How do we fix it?
How do we fix it?
Just choose a different instance that aligns with your views? This is the fediverse, you can just do that.
I prefer this to the string of sites that just outright block me based on location. Or have permanently banned my IP range without me ever visiting them.
As long as I don't have to solve captchas, I don't mind.
Needing to select multiple rounds of crosswalks or busses makes me close the page.
You need some kind of shield against the bots these days. Many people seem to find that Anubis is good enough. Cloudflare is always the wrong choice.
I don't mind them so much, as a concept. But why does Cloudflare, for example, need to verify my humanity on every website? Verify I'm a human once, save the cookie, then i should be marked as human for a period (30 days for example) before being verified against (unless some sus things happen). Why every damn time on every damn page?
Side note, I love the little catgirl one lol she's so cute
But why does Cloudflare, for example, need to verify my humanity on every website?
How is cloudflare supposed to know you're the same user? That sounds like a privacy nightmare.
iirc she's a jackal
That's good to know. But either way, I don't mind her. She's adorable. And that check is quick, and I have yet seen it pretend to fail (as so many others do... no, I'm going to create a "free" account to view your content once, just because your verification pretended to fail).
preventing bots is hard. What would prevent me of making the bot verification as a human, save the cookie and then put it on my bot?
Says guy unaware that lemmy posts and comments are majoritarily published by bots.
Anything fighting bots is fine with me, even if it inconveniences me for a few more seconds
I'm not a fan of going to hardware store's website and having to verify I'm not a bot just to see if they have an item I'm looking for
Something in your setup is triggering them. Some ad blocker, tracking blocker, or VPN you use is making these sites worry you're malicious. Not saying you have to turn that all off, but it's likely some piece of your setup might be a bit excessive and you can do without that setting or piece of it.
For me, it is the VPN, and how I have strict settings on my browser, to erase cookies etc. But it is not like I am going to turn those off, so I just suffer. It really takes a toll on you eventually, to use those extra seconds on practically every page you open. But I browse a lot less now, so I guess it is a good thing.
Something in your setup is triggering them. Some ad blocker
I am not turning off my fucking adblocker, which is the only thing from that list that I use.
I wouldn't be surprised if even using Firefox triggers it or something stupid like that.
I’ve never seen this message before
I don't mind it on social media, but just to obtain basic info, ie. on google or .gov websites, it's totally obnoxious.
Yes, and the ones that put part of a bicycle into the next square, so it's not full of bicycle. Are bots supposed to pick or not, it should be more clear if we're supposed to pick squares with any pixel of a bike. Perhaps give parameters what percentage of the square's pixels should contain bike to count as bike.
Seems like a big switch in the last 3-6 months? Even google is making me do stupid captcha when I occasionally use it.
Maybe just because I started out waiting like 15 seconds for a handshake when connecting to the internet, but it doesn't bother me a bit if it helps against bots.
