Oddbean new post about login | logout Signal just made me solve a dozen CAPTCHAs so that I may be blessed to use Signal Desktop behind a VPN. Apparently it's to reduce spam. https://m.primal.net/Iizj.png https://m.primal.net/Iizk.png https://m.primal.net/Iizh.png https://m.primal.net/Iizl.png
I finally made it, but barely. https://m.primal.net/Iizn.png
Try it yourself, it's fun! https://signalcaptchas.org/challenge/generate
This is not the way.
The first step to KYC is blocking VPNs. Or maybe asking for a phone number. Crazy.
I have never fully understood what to click on. In the grid captchas, when it asks one to click on the motorcycle, do you click every box that has even a small portion of the bike? Do you click on boxes that include the rider? Whoever developed them seems to believe they are intuitive but I would disagree.
What about the moped? That's what always annoyed me
Amen!!! Is it a motorcycle? My opinion is no.
Usually I just stop using those services. Google does them all the time and I just use a different search. I'm not a monkey. CAPTCHA https://image.nostr.build/427f008281b7e4504afe75b5c2da3af234085d592fb34f009cc9d227bc5f5285.jpg
imagine tipping 10 cents and imagine, as business like that, being tipped 10 cents from all users
obv 10 cent in ecash denominated in sats
thank god for mullvad leta, doing google searches with vpn turned on was mildly infuriating
They used to give away 5 bitcoins for solving a much easier one, lol. https://image.nostr.build/257fb06d78b90bf2d9bf64b6c255832c3f67709d4819f3240d9380e459df4faf.png
RETVRN
Do not comply!
I get one every couple of weeks on the Signal client Molly on Android (also behind VPN).
This one might need to be a framed poster somewhere https://m.primal.net/Iizl.png
THEY HIT ME WITH THIS THREE TIMES A WEEK. IT IS BAD AND THEY SHOULD FEEL BAD.
Lately, randomly, about once a week, Instagram won't let me straight in, telling me "we need to verify it's you", then proceed ask me to just tick a box, and then I'm in. Not even a captcha! Just a tick on a box, and somehow they verify simething by that futile exercise. 🤦♀️
Who tf uses Signal without a VPN? 🤷♂️
