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> Cloudflare merely requires CAPTCHA

I do agree that Privacy Pass is in theory a good idea, although to say that CloudFlare "merely" requires captchas to be filled out is a bit disingenuous. You're often required to complete 5-10 captchas, and sometimes even after that, you get denied. Had that happen to me multiple times.

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I don’t use Tor for all of my traffic, but sometimes I do use it just because I can. And my experience lately is that I usually get hCaptcha and I usually pass it once and get in. It’s Recaptcha that is a serious problem.

Google owned domains, namely Youtube, are even worse. They often redirect to different domains for blocks so just changing the circuit does nothing.

Yeah after years of suffering from reCAPTCHA I'm somewhat thankful for hCaptcha. It is still annoying (especially Cloudflare's integration which seems barely compatible with the Tor Browser's cookie and circuit management), but at least I don't have to switch exit nodes twenty times just to have a chance of my solution being accepted (like with reCAPTCHA).

If you can't pass a CAPTCHA, you need to stop and ask yourself -- are you really a human being, or have you just been programed to believe that you are?

Actually a good point as I never even considered that. Maybe I'm the one who's at wrong here?

Seemingly I am passing the captchas, they are not giving me any errors. Simply seems to accept my input, reload the page and ask me to do more.

Not a valid question when google literally has a patent on unsolvable captcha. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661

If you have been trying to solve the same captcha for several hours, you need to stop and ask yourself -- are you really a human being, or have you just been programed to believe that you are?

This patent has expired due to non payment of fees

That’s also not google lol

My bad, I was referring to this comment [0] and didn't notice it was not actually owned by google.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16157480

There are some really crazy captchas out there. I've had some where I'd need a microscope and enhance button to get.

> You're often required to complete 5-10 captchas, and sometimes even after that, you get denied. Had that happen to me multiple times.

Glad you mentioned it. This also has happened to me many time. It is unfortunate botnet and spam has give IP addresses bad names.

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