I get captchas on a lot of websites when I use a VPN. On the VPN, it's impossible to solve the captcha, it just keeps repeating. The only way to pass the captcha is to turn off the VPN.
I'm using a lot of archive sites lately.
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2025
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I believe sometimes they fail no matter what because of a condition on your end.
Iโve encountered this behavior when Iโm connected to a VPN or on Tor or sometimes because Iโm running Linux. I think they will sometimes fail no matter what under these circumstances because the website is too lazy to actually put some effort in additional steps to vetting you.
Yeah, if they fail twice in a row when I know I completed them correctly, I don't bother a third time.
Most of the time I don't bother at all if it's anything more than "click the checkbox".
I guess I'm a bot, eh?
I once recorded myself solving captchas for several minutes, as it just kept asking for more. I finally accepted, that I am, apparently, a robot.
Isn't this the whole reason why proof of work captchas are being developed?
Reportedly, this training of bots is a thing of the past. Google used to do this, make people put in the street numbers from Street View or blurred words from book scans. But from what I read this isn't really necessary any more, AI and computer vision got better and what we see these days is just wasted effort, it doesn't contribute to anything except tell if you're able to solve the challenge and how you move your mouse while doing it. I wonder why they still do all the zebra crossings and motorcycles and fire hydrants, though. Looks like a synthetic dataset to me, because pictures repeat on a regular basis and they're not that hard... I'd certainly expect less repeating pictures and more occlusion and weird ones if this was training for something.
I'm impressed by Facebook's new method. AI generated images of 4 stacks of rocks are generated, and you have to choose the image containing a stack with the specified number of rocks. Much better than deciding whether the section of image containing a couple mm of handlebar counts as a square with a motorcycle
I absolutely cannot with these. If it asks me about motorcycles I skip or refresh until it gives me something else
What do you mean someone is checking the results? They just compare your answer to others. You can even get things wrong, like missing a crosswalk, if others did the same mistake. I never spend any amount of time on these and click as fast as I can. It usually works.
Other websites exist. If you know you know. You probably don't visit the sites that have implemented the annoying and aggravating ones
That's a strange response. Why not show some examples rather than being so vague?
You think I keep track of the sites hese stupid CAPTCHAs are on? I don't.