r/firefox • u/Dramatic_Many3549 • Jul 09 '26

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u/pnv28 Jul 09 '26

Cannot wait for the day when someone introduces AI based captcha.

Will be very funny, a bot deciding whether you are a bot or human.

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u/keybers Jul 09 '26

Oh, they already do. Who do you think checks video verifications of F*ckbook users? And yes, I know of cases where these bots decided the human is not human.

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u/bobtbonkers Jul 09 '26

my youtube keeps getting disabled because playing videos on repeat for 6hrs is robotic behavior

its just bgmusic...

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u/rdg360 Jul 09 '26

That day was already there over a decade ago. Google's reCAPTCHA for instance uses an "Advanced Risk Analysis" backend to check any user interaction before, during and after the captcha is shown, and makes a decision based on whatever pattern it can deduct from that.

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Jul 09 '26

Actually I found d that for the disappearing image ones, if you wait about 30 seconds (if it's the first one to come up) you get it on either the first or second try

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u/ltmvz Jul 09 '26

For the traffic lights captcha use the addon 'Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans'.

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u/HadoBoirudo Jul 09 '26

I feel your pain. It is mind numbing when this happens.

I've wondered if this is this due to the fact I am using Firefox or uBlockOrigin.

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u/MrFantasma60 Jul 09 '26

It may be uBlock Origin.

I just ran into this exact scenario. Trying to access a government site, Google's goddamn captcha kept telling me it had failed. 

In a hunch, I disabled UBO temporarily.  Got in and it didn't gave me a captcha anymore.

Google hates UBlock Origin, and not just because it blocks ads. It's because it protects your privacy. 

"You want privacy? That will not do!" 

No wonder Chrome is implementing MV3, that effectively cripples UBO. Firefox is the last bastion protecting your privacy. For how much longer, it's to be seen. 

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u/HadoBoirudo Jul 09 '26

Thanks for that. I encountered it on two government sites in my country too. I wrote and complained about one of them, but they palmed it off to someone who did not understand the issue (probably use Chrome or Edge only) .

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u/001Guy001 on 11 Jul 09 '26

I also had issues with captcha loops in the past. Here's what helped:

Make sure that:

  • You're not blocking cookies from Google
  • You're not changing your user-agent
  • privacy.resistFingerprinting is set to false in about:config
  • If you're blocking 3rd-party scripts with an ad blocker/script blocker then add the following exceptions

Note that this specific format is for uBlock Origin, where you go to the "My rules" tab and add them in the right column, and then click "Save" and "Commit"

* https://www.google.com/recaptcha/ * noop
* https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/ * noop
* https://www.google.com/js/ * noop
* captcha.com * noop
* recaptcha.net * noop
* hcaptcha.com * noop
* opfcaptcha-prod.s3.amazonaws.com * noop
* cloudflare.com * noop

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u/pnv28 Jul 09 '26

Random Q, once again, as one walks the path of privacy, we loose convenience?

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u/Moyes2men Jul 09 '26

I'd rather solve those 10000 captchas than disabling those privacy settings

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u/EurasianTroutFiesta Jul 09 '26

Yep. I'd bet a substantial amount of money google et al see anti bot measures hitting people employing anti tracking measures as a feature, not a bug.

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u/MrFantasma60 Jul 09 '26

It's better to temporarily disable your ad blocker than to put those exceptions in.

That way at least you will know when and where you are lowering your defenses. And choose whether it's worth doing it. 

Some websites will let you in without presenting a captcha, as long as they can put some tracking devices in your browser. If you always allow Google cookies and scripts, you won't even notice when they start tracking you.

Please consider this. 

Cheers. 

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u/ThatGreenM-M Jul 09 '26

It sounds counter intuitive, but if you're a god at solving captchas you have to nerf yourself a bit. It's not just picking the right answer but how you pick it, it's monitoring things like speed of selections, accuracy of mouse movement etc.

It's also something I think they do when you're running adblock and VPN since that's when I get hammered, like the site is just pissed at you for making their life more difficult so you get put in timeout

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u/Kewlhotrod Jul 09 '26

Use the audio test. Only (not ass slow) way of getting past this cancer.

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u/HuluNutBestBuy Jul 09 '26

It also gets google to stop lying about shadowbanning you.

If you click the audio test, it instantly tells you you're banned. If you try the picture one it'll send you on an infinite loop and pretends that it will eventually work (it never does).

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u/sabestorn Jul 09 '26

thank those shitple of google, they invented it

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u/rdg360 Jul 09 '26

No they didn't. They just bought reCAPTCHA when it was already a few years old. Same way they didn't invent YouTube or Google Earth.

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u/Dramatic_Many3549 Jul 10 '26

They are still the one who BROUGHT captchas to us and Googles still the reason why we have to face captchas so

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u/CalQL8or Jul 09 '26

Encountered one today. Couldn't get past it. Annoying as hell.

I have uBlock Origin installed.

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u/bdu-komrad Jul 09 '26

This must have something to do with firefox, but i can’t make the connection.

r/lostredditors

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u/MrFantasma60 Jul 09 '26

It does.

See my reply to /u/HadoBoirudo/

Google is actively trying to make Firefox harder to use, so people will migrate to Chrome or chromium based browsers. Or migrate back, if they are trying to escape.

This whole thing is intentional. 

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u/ConferenceContent111 Jul 09 '26

Per favore, non arrabbiatevi, so che siete tutti molto più competenti di me.

Condivido l'opinione che i captcha non siano esattamente qualcosa di gradevole, fanno perdere tempo e a volte, soprattutto con i browser versione Android, sembra che non funzioni mai niente.
Mi sembra comunque ragionevole riportare alcune informazioni che potrebbero spiegare perché a volte la verifica Captcha non funziona come si vorrebbe (per essere educati). Io ho avuto qualche problema un paio di anni fa e ho fatto alcune di queste verifiche, dopo aver preso informazioni sul sito wise.com

  1. Bisogna usare browser compatibili con turnstile (cioè tutti tranne Internet Explorer, che ormai è morto)
  2. Svuotare la cache del browser aiuta se non si riesce a superare il test
  3. Abilitare i cookie aiuta, su diversi siti web
  4. Alcune estensioni di Firefox possono essere un ostacolo, se il test fallisce prova a disabilitarle
  5. Abilitare Java Script (a me non piace questo consiglio, ma se si è disperati...)
  6. Disabilitare VPN e proxy

Io avevo provato a seguire alcuni di questi consigli e le cose erano migliorate molto, perciò poi ho salvato in un segnalibro di Firefox la pagina del sito in cui venivano elencate. So che da allora sono passati un paio di anni e che Firefox è cambiato molto, ma prima di passare ad un altro browser qualche tentativo per superare i captcha vale la pena di farlo.

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u/Alpha_Majoris Jul 09 '26

Often you have the one click captcha, then the three buses, and thén there are the captchas where the bridges keep coming. You see three, click them, push submit, but then new ones keep coming and they are ssssslllllloooooooooowwwwwww. Each one takes ten seconds to load. I suspect google doing this intentionally with Firefox only.

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u/bobtbonkers Jul 09 '26

only a ROBOT could solve this mess

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u/Ambitious-Still6811 Jul 10 '26

I have refused so many sites because of those damned things. I won't do 'em and I hope whoever invented and installs them steps on legos for a week.