This repo is for the client code for developer that need to verify their response to the API. I understand that the challenges can be frustrating. You might want to consider contacting the sites where you're experiencing this to advise them to update to the v3 version of the service which presents a confidence score rather than blocking with a challenge.

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This is honestly the WORST fucking thing imaginable. According to it I am robot most of the fucking time. Not only it uses terrible images (how the fuck do I determine what is a storefront when I see kanji crap etc) it fails almost all the time, it won't detect corner cases like (like does fucking pedestrian traffic light apply? Do you select tile if just part of fucking thing is in the view?). It's absolutely fucking retarded. I would rather have fucking bots posting spam everywhere but this shit. Delete this google and start again.

We're missing ReCaptacha on here to stop angry abusive bots!

While the tone distracts from the overall feedback, the submitter’s concerns are entirely valid. Captcha hurts user experience. ReCaptcha is somewhat broken, with the “fix” only increasing success rates (~85% → 90%). If the problem is to slow down attackers while not unduly harming legitimate user experience, this system, as currently implemented, fails utterly and completely.

By comparison, “proof of work” systems such as this can be transparent to the user (“unlock” when focusing the first field) and completed by the time the form is filled out, if legitimately typing as a human do. Additionally, you can adjust the work difficulty based on request rates; clients trying to go too fast can be directly slowed down. (Plus replay / stale use prevention, avoidance of pre-calculation by use of challenges, …)

This is honestly the WORST fucking thing imaginable. According to it I am robot most of the fucking time. Not only it uses terrible images (how the fuck do I determine what is a storefront when I see kanji crap etc) it fails almost all the time, it won't detect corner cases like (like does fucking pedestrian traffic light apply? Do you select tile if just part of fucking thing is in the view?). It's absolutely fucking retarded. I would rather have fucking bots posting spam everywhere but this shit. Delete this google and start again.

We're missing ReCaptacha on here to stop angry abusive bots!

I wish I was a bot so it would be justified. On my work laptop I simply skip all websites that require captcha because I know I will spend 10 minutes at least getting it. If I will ever be able to. That is a huge issue and sometimes I it just boils over and I get really angry and vent my frustration (like here). It is incredibly slow, annoyingly vague (lot of the times part of hydrant or traffic lights goes over tile and then what?) and even worse, sometimes if you don't solve it in time, the original website will time you out, issuing another captcha. How utterly ridiculous is that?

The swearing is a bit much!

But the sad truth is a university project created a bot that can trick Google ReCaptcha with a success rate of 91% accuracy for V2.

You can see the full details here: https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha2

I am sure they can get a high success rate with the V3 as well.

The things I hate about Google ReCaptcha:

• Their CSP is poor on a broad range of browsers e.g. This github repo suggests Nonces but there are known issues with IE11, Edge and Safari IOS.
• The Widget is not properly responsive. You have to hack it to make it work for Mobile devices!
• No proper AMP-HTML module yet for Google ReCaptcha (so makes their AMP Forms Pointless and Open to Spam).
• Actually has a poor success rate against bots in many public and private studies.

Enerccio completely agree.
Trying to install it on a website, having issues with PHP. Should take 5 min to fix. Its been an hour now, still clicking these god damn fucking images. May whoever made reCaptcha burn in hell, seriously, in hell.

Enerccio completely agree.
Trying to install it on a website, having issues with PHP. Should take 5 min to fix. Its been an hour now, still clicking these god damn fucking images. May whoever made reCaptcha burn in hell, seriously, in hell.

Why are you not using reCAPTCHA v3 which does not use images? All these concerns and frustration are now gone as it runs invisibly in the background giving you control on the scoring and actions to take now.

Enerccio completely agree.
Trying to install it on a website, having issues with PHP. Should take 5 min to fix. Its been an hour now, still clicking these god damn fucking images. May whoever made reCaptcha burn in hell, seriously, in hell.

Why are you not using reCAPTCHA v3 which does not use images? All these concerns and frustration are now gone as it runs invisibly in the background giving you control on the scoring and actions to take now.

I am not using anything, I am being affected by other websites using this shit,

This is honestly the WORST fucking thing imaginable. According to it I am robot most of the fucking time. Not only it uses terrible images (how the fuck do I determine what is a storefront when I see kanji crap etc) it fails almost all the time, it won't detect corner cases like (like does fucking pedestrian traffic light apply? Do you select tile if just part of fucking thing is in the view?). It's absolutely fucking retarded. I would rather have fucking bots posting spam everywhere but this shit. Delete this google and start again.

We're missing ReCaptacha on here to stop angry abusive bots!

u fking retax idt, anything who supports recaptcha is stupid

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no such thing as hilx or not

I would like to reopen this issue as recaptcha is the fucking worst. I will now give up on logging into most websites because of how many series of buses or fire hydrants I need to recognise. I am not here to spend several minutes (no exaggeration, I just went through four series of grid recognition and ended up giving up) to train your AI.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Use recaptcha

Now, I agree that ranting against open source software without doing anything is not productive, so in my spare time I have worked hard on a fix and I think I got it right. For some reason I cannot commit to a branch, so here are the full steps to reproduce the fix:

1. Completely delete this repository
2. Wipe recaptcha from the face of the Earth

Thanks in advance. 👍

@amcgregor If I am so dumb can you pinpoint your solutions then? Please, for the dumb me, what can I do?

I quipped about two people because you addressed to me that I have disabled cookies and this is why recaptcha is not working. But I have cookies enabled so how was that addressed to me? I have no privacy options enabled, I did for like a week years ago and since then recaptcha is fucking with me and I can't stop it even if I do no longer have any privacy options.

The fact that you have to justify yourself to the software for taking measures to protect your privacy is already a valid point of criticism. The fact that Google uses captchas to make large parts of the Internet unusable for users who do not want to reveal their surfing behavior to Google is disturbing.
It appears that Google is (mis)using its market power to discourage users from taking effective measures against tracking that compromises its business model. This software appears to be technically, legally, and morally flawed.

@amcgregor you sound like you would be fun to hang out with. This thread clearly demonstrates that a large number of people hate ReCAPTCHA, and the anti-spam service it allegedly provides is actually harming user experience. I am using the latest vanilla Firefox version, no adblockers, VPNs or similar extensions installed, yet I see ReCAPTCHA several times a day when trying to use Google. By the time this 'service' is flagging a large number of false positives, it is time to either improve it or get rid of it.

The other problem is the clear conflict of interest between the advertised functionality of ReCAPTCHA, and the motives of Google - it pays Google to make a less efficient captcha service, as that just means more human computational power for training their machine vision models or similar.

I could have just posted a comment like "Hey @rowan-m, please pass my message on to the ReCAPTCHA team: 'Go fuck yourselves'", though there are multiple previous examples of this in the thread, so instead I thought I would inject a bit of humour with a PR that was clearly a bit of a joke. Unfortunately you appear to have a sense of humour comparable to that of a doorstop, and are only interested in making excuses for this pile of crap software and parroting off non-solutions to anyone that dare criticise.

Also, an extra 'fuck you' to the person that added those fade in/fade out images. They don't work most of the time, the implementation is buggy and doesn't show up half the time, it's infuriating as hell, and a case study in everything that you could possibly do wrong in a piece of software.

This thread clearly demonstrates that a large number of people hate ReCAPTCHA…

And also highlights that none of them recognize that this fact does not matter, blinded by their selfish hatred.

…and the anti-spam service it allegedly provides is actually harming user experience.

This point seems to be widely agreed upon.

…with a PR that was clearly a bit of a joke.

Which was neither funny nor original. "Juvenile" would be the term I'd use, and a rather abhorrent waste of the time and effort of Google engineers to clean up after. I almost used a winking emoji here, but no, it's actually not funny at all. It's abusive. Additionally, the code of conduct has been linked several times.

Unfortunately you appear to have a sense of humour comparable to that of a doorstop, and are only interested in making excuses for this pile of crap software and parroting off non-solutions to anyone that dare criticise.

I'm interested in productive open collaboration and a generally positive support environment. Part of why I initially commented with a moderate standpoint (the OP isn't wrong) and advocated for the thread to not be deleted outright after it initially disappeared. I do regret not advocating harder for it to be locked, however. Essentially all that's left to be said, by anyone, is "me too" to various points already given, to discover solutions linked herein, or provide further unhinged rants or disruptive behavior such as frivolous pull requests and demonstrations of an inability to use browser search functionality.

If I am so dumb can you pinpoint your solutions then? Please, for the dumb me, what can I do? — @Enerccio

Your words, not mine.

⌃F, F3, or ⌘F, start typing unca (the start of uncaptcha), and there you go. Press F3 or ⌘G to find the next occurrence. Now you know how to use in-browser search.

See also my follow up on Jul 3, 2019, where I link to a browser extension, specifically, that's done the work for you, but you can search for the underlying tool on whatever browser extension site you desire. Witness the at least five independent mentions of the solution, counted right there, in the search input.

⌃F, F3, or ⌘F, start typing unca (the start of uncaptcha), and there you go. Press F3 or ⌘G to find the next occurrence. Now you know how to use in-browser search.

See also my follow up on Jul 3, 2019, where I link to a browser extension, specifically, that's done the work for you, but you can search for the underlying tool on whatever browser extension site you desire. Witness the at least five independent mentions of the solution, counted right there, in the search input.

From the links github repo and I quote `Download audio challenge'.

So this will only work with audio captcha which as unfortunate aspect that sometimes it will claim that I "We're sorry, but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now." and thus won't work. Not always but a lot of the time. Enough that I forget to even do audio captcha which is easier than images.

I love this issue as much as a fucking hate that software !

Here is an extra fuck you to all the team developing this shit for the 25 MINUTES I wasted trying (because I gave up) to enter my rockstar account !

If i am forced to use this, is there a way to tell their dev team to go fuck themselves? I have never seen anything as bad as this, and it it is getting worse.

@amcgregor are you disabled? why you are disliking every post? ohhh i found because you think captcha is the best LMAO

For me, trying to integrate Recaptcha into a website or form is the most frustrating and rage inducing process. I'm looking at Recaptcha alternatives, I have a good feeling that they'll work. 3 years ago it was much easier. Now, its like Sisyphus being crushed by the rock

This is some of the worst software ever created, only second to Lotus Notes.

The fix for this issue should be a PR that erases the repo!

i mean cloudflare's hcaptcha is literally clone of recaptcha but better, it doesnt say there was an error or you did incorrectly blah blah even if you do it right

Fuck ReCaptcha, and fuck the people who wrote it, and the bigger fools who promote it.

@rowan-m reCAPTCHA infuriates me on a daily basis. It is truly an abomination. It makes me despise Google and everything related to the company. It has ruined the modern web. I look forward to the day reCAPTCHA is erased from the annals of history.

"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" This is a huge load of donkey shit.