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1. xnx · 1790015347 · focus · HN ↗

   With AI's capable of defeating every captcha short of ARC-AGI, I don't know how this cat-and-mouse game will continue. Services (now banks, later Amazon) will require attested hardware, but even that can be put in the hands of a robot.

   I wish services would get over trying to block how their customers want to use (or NOT use) their websites.

   1. snailmailman · 1790018306 · focus · HN ↗

      How are AI's capable of defeating every captcha when I, a human, get sometimes entirely blocked by captchas all the time.

      I get captchas when trying to do google searches if I'm not logged in. Or a lot of the time its "please wait a moment. Don't refresh the page" (the google results will then never load until you refresh the page). A few weeks ago I couldn't get past a cloudflare checkbox on a modern iPhone, and I'm not on a VPN or anything either. Yesterday I tried to visit an old reddit thread I had bookmarked and got "You've been blocked by network security," without a chance to even attempt a captcha.

      What are bots doing to get past all of these?

      1. Toslink · 1790052894 · focus · HN ↗

         What sort of esoteric setup are you using though? You shouldn't get those messages unless you have a very tainted IP address or extremely old/not-normal browser configuration.

         1. snailmailman · 1790223983 · focus · HN ↗

            I assume its my IP's reputation, or that of my entire ISP/ASN. As far as i can tell I dont have a residential proxy, but I cant make those same guarantees about nearby IPs.

            I do use firefox with third party cookies disabled + ublock origin, but thats on my desktop. I actually see the cloudflare popups more often on my latest-iOS iPhone in stock safari with whatever minimal tracking protection is built in. Not on a VPN, and not using iCloud public relay either. Its very frustrating.

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