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This is a cool idea. But yesterday cloudflare made me recognize 3 bicycles, 2 motorcycles, 3 fire hydrants, 2 traffic lights, and 1 staircase...all for ONE site verification.

If something like this is going to be the norm, I'm never talking to anyone ever again.

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> 3 bicycles, 2 motorcycles, 3 fire hydrants, 2 traffic lights, and 1 staircase...all for ONE site verification.

That sounds more like Google's captcha system. I've never seen Cloudflare Turnstile do this on any of my systems/browsers.

I pay for a vpn service and whenever I'm on it google makes me go through a ton of captchas before I can search. The first time it happened I assumed I must've kept getting one wrong, it made me go through 10 or so. The next time I just quit after 5 and started using bing.

I suppose it's been the policy of a lot of big tech companies for a while, but it's just cheaper for them to lose x percent of users than it is to allow y percent of bots.

Some of them just detect your IP and dump you in an endless loop. Sort of like a captcha shadow ban. I suppose they might let you through after 30 loops or something, but only a bot would last that long.

Use the audio solution instead.

Sometimes I suspect I'm caught in a loop, and just abandon.

It's not a loop, it's just seeing how much free labeling it can shake out of you.

Depending on the implementation, that's intentional if you fail the check for whatever reason. It doesn't return an error status or page to allow what it thinks is the automated attacker from trying another approach, it just loops you through the process indefinitely.

If you can't pass the captcha, you need to ask yourself if you are really a human being or if you have just been programmed to believe that you are.

I abandon as soon as I see Cloudflare, since my experience has shown that it seldom works correctly and ends up wasting my time anyway.

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