I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.

I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?

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[–] 9 points 2 days ago* (8 children)

I don't mind them so much, as a concept. But why does Cloudflare, for example, need to verify my humanity on every website? Verify I'm a human once, save the cookie, then i should be marked as human for a period (30 days for example) before being verified against (unless some sus things happen). Why every damn time on every damn page?

Side note, I love the little catgirl one lol she's so cute

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)
  • That's good to know. But either way, I don't mind her. She's adorable. And that check is quick, and I have yet seen it pretend to fail (as so many others do... no, I'm going to create a "free" account to view your content once, just because your verification pretended to fail).

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    preventing bots is hard. What would prevent me of making the bot verification as a human, save the cookie and then put it on my bot?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    (unless some sus things happen)

    It's why I added this.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago*

    The point is, if that sort of global cookie is set, it will be a abused to get around protections, making it worthless in the first place. It's not even hard in that situation. You set the cookie, add it your scraper, and then your scraper bypasses the checkbox everywhere.

    That's ignoring the privacy implications of cross-site cookies, which should be disabled if you care about your privacy even a little bit.

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