I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.
I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?
They should just use Anubis. At least we then see cute anime characters while the bot check runs.
I’ve just considered it a casualty of the privacy wars.
I don’t know if they’re deployed as a “weapon of annoyance” or anything, but I do notice that when I’m using a) a degoogled browser, b) an ad-blocking dns, c) mask my location, and/or d) block my IP. Suddenly (almost) every website makes me wait by throwing that at me.
I think it’s lowkey trying to annoy me to the point where I give up on having those privacy measures, but they underestimate my hatred of corporate fuckery.
I’d guess your client just looks more like a crawler that way and gets a JS challenge thrown its way
Bots are genuinely a problem.
Nah, fuck them bots.
I’m going to go ballistic if I have to pick out all the pictures of fucking crosswalks one more time.
“you are now a bus. click on pictures of things you’re about to run over”
You’re labeling data for Google… for free. It’s not about ‘stopping’ bots, but about swindling free labour from the working-class.
Other systems for deterring bots don’t force you to menially label data for a for-profit corporation worth billions/trillions. An example of one that is automatic and open-source is anubis.
Yes, it is getting annoying. I do not have any anti-automation measurements on my services (besides robots.txt, if that counts), I just let everyone pass, no matter if human, script or AI. The only thing that annoys me sometimes is when searching through logs because of the frequeny of requests, but as long as it doesn’t get to a level where it impacts performance I really don’t care that much about it.
No, unless they’re set up poorly. I’ve visited sites that ran the same check on every single webpage, and I’ve visited sites that do unnecessarily difficult and lengthy jobs to verify, and they always lose my traffic for it. Not that they care, considering I’ve used adblockers religiously since losing a hard drive to a malvertisement in 2011.
Cloudflare tracks TF outta you. Not antibot checkoff, but Cloudflare def
Oh, so basically websites might be seeing my data for Google or worse. It didn’t seem like a good thing anyway, but this verified bot always seems to analyze your behavior and the things you do.
Seems like a complaint a bot would have.
Fuck, so now anyone who’s different is a bot or AI? Seriously, if I were a robot, why would I write a post complaining about websites? If I were AI, I’d have better things to do.
That’s exactly what an AI would say to try to look like a person.
Dude, you’re watching too many science fiction movies. Even though artificial intelligence might be quite advanced these days, if I were a robot I wouldn’t waste my time talking to humans. I’d think of something worse: ending the lives of these poor, brainless mortals. You’re crazy, man :-P
That’s exactly what a robot would say to look like a human.
Fuck you 😾
So long as the service is compatible with web browsers and phone OSes, and is going to stay that way, (e.g. isn’t going to be used by Google to lock out users of non-Google services) then I’m good.
Oh, and it should actually obstructs bots without blocking humans.
Man, if the checks feel excessive you’d be astounded to know how the bot frequency feels 😂
Maybe just because I started out waiting like 15 seconds for a handshake when connecting to the internet, but it doesn’t bother me a bit if it helps against bots.
I prefer this to the string of sites that just outright block me based on location. Or have permanently banned my IP range without me ever visiting them.
I didn’t think I’ve ever seen that.
Anything fighting bots is fine with me, even if it inconveniences me for a few more seconds
