greenbit

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

.zip seems to have more timeouts and actions need to be retried 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not saying the effect on bot traffic is none

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yes I know, I'm not denying that

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Even more probable than perception variations is just messed up screen settings

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

These active captchas instead of methods not visible to the user are worse at hindering nefarious use than regular human use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

As usual, the purpose doesn't justify the means. The goal could and should be achieved without this nonsense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah cloudflare gets a similar reaction as a paywall. Fuck this site, I'll go somewhere else

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Captchas ain't stopping them anyway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Sorry, I assumed this was already common knowledge. There's another thread fork from a comment.

Tl;dr they're not good at their purpose and cause unneeded annoyance to users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What the other commenter said and also accessibility issues, aand overall this is a problem which shouldn't face the end user at all. Just browsing has become just a nuisance after a nuisance nowadays. Just like cookie modals not adhering to browser settings or hiding the reject all behind extra steps.

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