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For a year now Google's reCAPTCHA has been very hard to convince as a human that I selected the correct 3 (or 4) rivers, houses, street numbers, mountains. Most of the time it makes me take the test twice or or more, even though reCAPTCHA is wrong. I feel like, if we're used to help train their neural network, it should at least have the courtesy to not require so many I-don't-believe-you-please-retry iterations.

Given how many sites use Cloudflare, I'd welcome they switch to a more reliable captcha service until Google repairs their scripts.

Oh and other captcha services work in Tor Browser Bundle.



reCAPTCHA intentionally occasionally calls correct answers wrong in order to make it harder for bots to learn.


If getting the right answer isn't adequate, what's the point?


Bots can still learn with that reCAPTCHA behavior. We're basically providing free labor to Google and they're making is love Solvemedia and other captcha services for providing something that actually doesn't turn into a minute long puzzle exercise, when all I wanted to do was post a comment on a site.




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