Yeah, that happened to be while back. Turning on enough privacy protection features makes you indistinguishable from all the bots filling the internet with spam. Between fingerprint prevention and temporary containers, my browser looks like an entirely new computer every time I open a new tab, and as you may expect, that’s exactly the kind of browser most websites don’t want hitting important forms.
If you’re on a VPN you an try switching to another exit node, otherwise switching to another browser is probably your best option. If you’re not behind a VPN, you can try getting a different IP address through your router settings. If you’re behind a shared IP address (CG-NAT, commonly used in poor countries and on mobile networks) one of your IP address neighbours is probably letting a botnet runt though their connection and the message won’t disappear for a while
Shit sucks, but got CAPTCHAs to prevent any abuse you need to cut off some users these days. AI has become too good at pretending to be human.
At least Cloudflare has the privacy pass addon that’ll let you bypass fingerprinting derived CAPTCHAs. It’s only going to get worse the coming years as AI gets more powerful.
the_beber@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Captchas are a complete and utter scam to gather ML-data.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lmao scam? This is intended purpose and open knowledge.
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Still kinda a scam cause theyre dogshit at their sold for purpose, and profit off it
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ironically they’re a cybercriminal’s best friend since if they layer multiple of them together on your site they can annoy online enforcers (and in the case of scrapers, keep out) who might otherwise shut the site down.
They don’t work so well Against targeted attacks but many searches when finding infringing sites are just searches for sites that are infringing.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 year ago
Be that as it may, OP should probably ideally be able to identify a bicycle without breaking the system.
cynetri@midwest.social 1 year ago
It’s never really about identifying anything, recaptcha cares way more about data it has on you to determine if you’re a human or not. If you’ve ever tried to google search with a VPN or Tor it makes it really fuckin annoying
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Anyone reading this, ALWAYS DO THE AUDIO ACCESSIBILITY ONE
It’s SO much easier and never has you do like fifty.