Does anybody else share my intense and all-consuming hatred for Google Recaptcha?

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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ihatetroons@exploding-heads.com⁩ to ⁨askexplodingheads@exploding-heads.com⁩

I browse the net on VPN 99.9999% of the time and generally use firefox with privacy addons. So Recaptcha is an absolute cunt to people like me.

I just got done being prompted 15 times in a row before saying fuck this shit. Normally, I use ddg or searchx for searches but it seems like some sites just like to troll me by using this shite for DDOS protection, registration, etc.

Really wish more sites would use competing captcha vendors like hcaptcha, friendly captcha, pretty much any other alternative, or even rolling their own.

TL;DR - why do people still use shitty google captcha?

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Owner_of_donky@exploding-heads.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
hCapcha is fucking alwful. Sometimes I can’t get it for 5 minutes straight. I would much prrfer Recapcha or this new capcha alternative made by Cloudflare (even though CF is not a good company) that skips entirely the process of selecting pictures.

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- ihatetroons@exploding-heads.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Haven’t run into problems with hcaptcha yet myself but I’ll take your word on it
  
  Most of my complaints with Google’s recaptcha fall into:
  
  them being more aggressive to users of Firefox/vpn/privacy addon and requiring a lot more screens of verification than normal
  
  On the multi image tiles, adding long 5+ second delays when you click an image and they replace it
  
  on the single image divided into a grid, they are never clear on border scenarios (eg edge of whatever in another tile) and in many cases choose pictures where the thing being selected occupies a large number of tiles. Combined with the first bullet point, this creates a massive number of clicks to pass verification
  
  But yeah, if there’s something else that bypasses picture selection altogether, I’m totally down for that. I’ve seen some that have you rotate an image and never had issues with those either.
  
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SJ0@exploding-heads.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Select all the images below of where recaptcha touched you :p

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quou@exploding-heads.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The same reason why people use joke languages like Rust and retarded frameworks for example Electron: Most people who develop software (malware in many cases) are not very good at making software, or they are good at making software and have passion for it but are so pushed for time because of stupidly tight deadlines or constant changes to requirements by clients/management that they are forced into writing nightmare garbage code and using whatever bullshit will get something looking close enough for as little effort as possible.

The former is especially problematic. A surprising number of programmers don’t have a whole lot of passion (especially those writing corporate programs, understandable really) for writing good software (by “good” I mean software that is not only fast, reliable and beautiful to the user but also elegant to the engineer), which causes a lot of bullshit.

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- masterofballs@exploding-heads.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There really is a lot not to like about rust. People are so happy to use it because it’s not C++. But C++ has 40 years of baggage. And I would argue that the safety guarantees of rust are not the best parts. It’s mostly just Cargo, a single build system and less legacy baggage. I prefer golang for most things I could use rust for.
  
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