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I’ve started turning away from so many sites because they have a CAPTCHA. There are a few sites that are worth it enough to do demeaning work but as I get more fed up they get more rare.
Of course I probably show up as a “blocked threat” on these site’s dashboards. So they probably aren’t getting the message.
There are very few legitimate usage for CAPTCHAs, but fear mongering CAPTCHA services are trying to convince non-technical people that they are required.
Click on all the squares where you see a motorbike.
Failed! There was a fraction of motorbike behind the car in the background that you couldn’t possibly see. Try again.
Rinse and repeat, 15 more times.
Yes, and Google captchas are the worsts of all of them.
I found Buster a while ago and works most of the times, it use the accesibility audio challenger to try to solve it using speech recognition. When it don’t work I found more easy to try the audio challenger, you just need to write the part that you understand and not all you hear, less picky than the images, still a pain in the ass
More of an !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world than a showerthought.
Also, you’re very wrong.
Ads can be blocked, captchas are required to access certain contents, and some are absurdly annoying if they detect you are using a vpn or tor.
Yeah, but captchas are something you see if your privacy minded, not staying signed in, no cookies, that type of stuff.
If you’re doing that, you’re running an ad blocker as well.
So it’s more that you see ads or you see captchas, rarely would someone run into both frequently.
Which likely lines up with what someone finds more annoying, it’s what they see most.
If you’d literally rather waste 5 minutes clicking on traffic lights, than 30 seconds watching a video, that’s just an excessive hate for ads.
I’m not saying you have to like them, but spending 4 minutes and 30 seconds just to avoid them, is bordering on an unhealthy phobia.
But captchas at least have purpose other filling my brain with bullshit.
And yes, ads can be blocked but a block ad is just … not there. So of course a captacha is more annoying than not seeing an ad. But that wasn’t the question. I’d rather solve captchas for 5 minues than watch a single 30 second ad.
Yes. You can block ads entirely. But the more you use stuff to block tracking and ads, the more you get captchas.
