Endless recaptcha/automated queries?
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Orin Casey
Aug 21, 2018, 5:47:06 AM8/21/18
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I'm facing the unenviable issue of being legitimately locked out of every website that utilises reCaptcha thanks to being provided exclusively captchas demanding I "select all squares with street signs". Each time I do it correctly, but it's completely irrelevant as no matter how many times I fill them out I'm told to "try again". Essentially the pattern is 3/4 separate puzzles you're given to skip, then the 4th or 5th will verify it. However it does not, instead locking me into an endless cycle of filling out street signs (and no info is provided regarding whether the metal pole and frame counts towards the street sign) and effectively banning me from every website that uses it to verify logins/sign-ups, which consists of a vast majority of websites I use. I attempted to use the audio version to rectify that problem but of course we couldn't have that, hence I receive this notification the instant I try to: "Your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect
our users, we can't process your request right now. For more details
visit our help page"
The help page is useless, it tells me absolutely nothing of worth and the solutions it provided also achieved nothing. I've even gone as far to remove all of my privacy measures, clear my cache, allow cookies, sign in and out of my Google account, uninstall anything that could hide or change an IP and use a browser like Chrome just so I could login to these sites, but there's no difference, I still get exclusively street sign captchas. Every other type of captcha, including the fade-out, text and simple box tick work perfectly, but as of recently I have never gotten any of them.
The street sign captcha doesn't include the version requiring users to select individual street signs, as shown in the image, it instead requests you to select boxes containing any part of a single street sign from an image, rather than multiple. Unfortunate because if it was the latter I likely wouldn't have this problem. I've reached out to support and haven't got much help in this matter and short of reCaptcha being shelved for an actual functioning alternative I can't see a solution in the near future either.
The help page is useless, it tells me absolutely nothing of worth and the solutions it provided also achieved nothing. I've even gone as far to remove all of my privacy measures, clear my cache, allow cookies, sign in and out of my Google account, uninstall anything that could hide or change an IP and use a browser like Chrome just so I could login to these sites, but there's no difference, I still get exclusively street sign captchas. Every other type of captcha, including the fade-out, text and simple box tick work perfectly, but as of recently I have never gotten any of them.
The street sign captcha doesn't include the version requiring users to select individual street signs, as shown in the image, it instead requests you to select boxes containing any part of a single street sign from an image, rather than multiple. Unfortunate because if it was the latter I likely wouldn't have this problem. I've reached out to support and haven't got much help in this matter and short of reCaptcha being shelved for an actual functioning alternative I can't see a solution in the near future either.
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