Hadn't seen that before. But there's one disadvantage with breaking captchas: have you been challenged recently with Google captchas? They take much, much longer to solve and oftentimes you don't even pass. This is with their image neural net training captcha. It constantly asks you to select more than the visible and inserts new images until it's satisfied. What I'm saying is that any site that uses Google's captcha system before posting a comment or something similar takes up much more of my time than it did before. I'm not sure if this is strictly needed, seeing many sites that manage with simple captchas. My impression is that Google turned their captcha system into a mechanical turk for letting the masses work for them and train their image neural net.
I haven't gotten anything except that "I am not a robot" captcha.
Generally I am not that upset if a business uses a captcha; I'm willing to meet in the middle. I as the customer am the one paying for fraud, do you think the CEO just takes fraud as a deduction out of their paycheck?
The general idea of a captcha is valid and sound, but it's a problem if captchas turn into crowdsourced labor for Google's neural net. First it was reading house numbers, which was easy and not that time intensive, thus acceptable, but the new captchas are a time sink and hard to accept.
> It takes time to solve a captcha regardless of whether or not it's going to /dev/null or into some neural network.
Yes, and if Google's captcha didn't get much harder, I wouldn't mention it. At least they stopped showing impossible to read random words. They had one variant which I never once passed and had to reload until I got something with distinctive letters.
It's definitely getting worse. Last week I had to give up on trying to file a warranty claim for a WD hdd, because their warranty portal stuck me in a "select all images showing X" captcha loop for 45 minutes.
The captcha works on TBB, but the lag makes it take over a minute or two every couple of minutes.
As for /s: It's a sarcasm tag, to make sure people get the tone of the sentence "You'll see plenty of lovely captchas, courtesy of our CloudFlare overlords."
Out of curiosity I just tried and it never fully loaded and with NoScript and such it didn't work for me. Is it supposed to work in the default config with NoScript and via Tor?
It works for me with the default TBB install (I just got one when going to HN). Sometimes if you have too much lag they will give you the backup one. Refresh a few times and you should get it.
I am surprised by commercial sites now using captchas. Prime example is just-eat in the UK. They got their last order from me the day before they introduced captchas.
