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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?
On PC they complete near-instantly so they don't bother me, but my phone is old and they sometimes take a minute or more, which is very annoying.
I find them annoying I see them a couple times a minute. Some sites are totally broken until I manually try loading their cdn separate.
Yes and no.
Yes it's annoying, but fuck bots and AI.
Grain of salt may be required though. I use noscript almost everywhere.
Says guy unaware that lemmy posts and comments are majoritarily published by bots.
No, unless they're set up poorly. I've visited sites that ran the same check on every single webpage, and I've visited sites that do unnecessarily difficult and lengthy jobs to verify, and they always lose my traffic for it. Not that they care, considering I've used adblockers religiously since losing a hard drive to a malvertisement in 2011.
So long as the service is compatible with web browsers and phone OSes, and is going to stay that way, (e.g. isn't going to be used by Google to lock out users of non-Google services) then I'm good.
Oh, and it should actually obstruct bots without blocking humans.
I didn't think I've ever seen that.
not really. I mean it does not even show up till I allow some stuff through no script. im used to a few steps while browsing.
Maybe unpopular opinion, but not really. It just takes a few extra seconds. I appreciate that moment with patience
ImHo yes. I may have no proof, but I believe, bot farmers have lots of super fast, weak bots, that will be filtered by that, but they probably also have some fancy, slowly working bots, that will pass the verification. So, content inside will be visible to the content farmer anyway.
Even worse? if we filter out weak content farms, who may not have strong bots, that means we help strong farms get even stronger, into monopoly - that may be even worse than letting everyone get it.
Or we could get some super protections? with fail positive checks? Maybe login only, with irl meeting account verification prior to any access? would be madness. Paid access to the group? madness and possibly against fedi idea)... how could we protect self, against stronger and stronger bots?
Papers please
In using changedetection to watch for discounts of games and other products. Some smaller webstores prevent that, which is annoying. This way I can't buy when there is a discount.
