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Comment on captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Looks pretty obvious to me.

I’m more infuriated by the “abnormal activity from your IP”. It seems pretty much everything is abnormal to these CDNs, including using Firefox on Linux. On the stack/exchange/ask networks I get that shit every fucking time. And no, I’m not using a VPN/Tor.

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elvith@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Considering the amount of traffic from LLM bots nowadays, everything human/“natural” traffic seems to be abnormal as it doesn’t behave like the majority of requests

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undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Especially when it’s a website that requires an account but they want to use SMS-based or Google Authenticator style 2FA in 2025. “Magic links” are stupid as hell too if you’re not a moron and use a decent password manager — I have no clue what random email address I generated since I can’t trust any company not to sell off my PII.

How hard is it to implement FIDO2 then let valid users make requests from whatever IP address they want? IP-based blocking is pretty fucking stupid if you’re already doing secure account-based authorization.

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- A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  OK, that last sentence made me laugh!
  
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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  the problem isn’t captcha as a concept, it’s how it’s executed
  
  there are good captchas that aren’t obviously making you train an AI model and which seem like they’d actually be effective at identifying humans, like dragging a circle over a specific feature of an image.
  
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chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I deal with this a lot since I do most of my browsing through a VPN.

As great as VPNs are, there probably are a lot of bad actors using them and sometimes I’m the next person using that IP.

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