• Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      232·
      1 year ago

      lmao scam? This is intended purpose and open knowledge. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it a scam.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
        2·
        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.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      1 year ago

      Anyone reading this, ALWAYS DO THE AUDIO ACCESSIBILITY ONE

      It’s SO much easier and never has you do like fifty.

    • ivanafterall@kbin.social
      713·
      1 year ago

      Be that as it may, OP should probably ideally be able to identify a bicycle without breaking the system.

      • cynetri (he/any)@midwest.socialEnglish
        9·
        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

  • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    You see this all the time on a VPN or Tor. Which is super hypocritical of them because the whole goddamn point of a CAPTCHA is to determine whether you’re a human or not when it is uncertain. IP banning you from a captcha of all things because an IP is sending “automated queries” defeats the whole point, the site itself is literally using your service so it can selectively let humans in while blocking automated traffic. If they wanted to ban certain IPs, they can do that directly.

      • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I think the very fact that they IP ban you from their Captcha service proves that Google’s intention was never to actually provide effective Captcha services and “make the web more secure” or any of their marketing BS. Their intention is to have a plausible front for datamining you, nothing more. They directly claim that the reason they ban you is because your automated queries supposely harm their servers (not even some excuse like “oh we’re doing this to protect the poor itty bitty website that use our Captcha and therefore we have a sorn duty to protect,” they straight up admit it’s about them), but think about it, who exactly can DDOS Google? You would especially not be able to do it from a VPN or a Tor node, those are super bandwidth limited, especially the latter. And if you were trying to DDOS Google, you’d be flooding them with inbound UDP data, not loading their captcha service, so banning you from that is only because many automated queries dilute the data they’re trying to collect on humans. Also, in almost all of those cases, you’re IP banned from the captcha, but not google.com or their ads, wouldn’t those be a higher priority if your goal really was to protect yourself? Also also, pretty ironic that Google has a problem with your automated queries when their entire business is automated queries of the entire web, and has been caught ignoring robots.txt rules multiple times.

  • anonymous@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    The same thing happened to me. Over and over. Turns out I actually remembered my password and didn’t have to reset it.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
    5·
    1 year ago

    Have you tried scanning for viruses? There was an email in my spam folder that said I had 28 viruses and if I installed their antivirus software, that would take care of it and now I don’t have any v

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