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Now that we're talking about doge, could anyone from us tell me if doge.gov/join has a cloud flare chaptcha when interacting with the form from the USA? I can only visit it via VPN and I have a chaptcha before the submit button. No, I don't wanna join doge, it's for... Educational purposes

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I don't get any captchas at all (haven't tried submitting), and I have a custom patched build of Chromium presenting an old user agent and several privacy features and extensions that usually get me captcha'd by cloudflare all the time.

COOL, I wasn't definitely working on a bot that spams requests with junk fake data, but if I were could I send you a trial version to see if you get chaptcha'ed? If yes lemme know if I can contact you on telegram or via mail or whatever

No, I think I'd prefer not to get involved in that.

That's fair, thank you anyway

You're treading dangerously close to violating the CFAA... and you're here admitting it on a public forum. And you're trying to get others involved in your scheme.

I just wanted to try whether the chaptcha was for US people as well, all in all I just wanted to see how easy (or not easy) it would have been to do so.

Honestly, I was more curious than other things. Unfortunately, I do not believe that people could actually make a dent on doge even if things like what I were talking about were adopted by the large public

Aside from raising public awareness on the topic, I would have done nothing else. But, well, it's not feasible so I just abandoned it whole

As weird as it might seem, I never sent any data to doge, it was all done locally

I don’t see one immediately, it doesn’t appear only after you click the submit button, does it?

With a VPN I see it after a few seconds/when I interact with the text fields of the form. You only see it when submit is clicked?

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