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Ask HN: What do you do when you get soft banned from captcha?

16 pointsby chipperyman573almost 5 years ago
I&#x27;m not sure why but I haven&#x27;t been able to pass any captcha I&#x27;ve been served in the last 2-3 days. It just keeps giving me images to solve and eventually will say that I failed and need to start over. When I click the audio button (my normal workaround), it says that my computer is sending automated queries and that I can&#x27;t be verified right now.<p>I&#x27;m using a regular residential IP, chrome, I&#x27;m signed into my 10+ year old google account, and haven&#x27;t been doing anything nefarious. Other than adblock and decentraleyes I don&#x27;t have any anti-tracking. I honestly have no idea what to do, 80% of the sites I visit won&#x27;t even let me in, and I can&#x27;t login to any of my accounts. Even my bank isn&#x27;t letting me login to pay my bills, which is really frustrating. I had to call them to get them to send me a paper bill and ask for an extension. Luckily they were understanding (apparently I wasn&#x27;t the first to call - did google change something recently?).

5 comments

db48xalmost 5 years ago
I long ago decided not to do anything that requires using recaptcha. Saves a huge amount of frustration. You can always find a different bank, although I can see that that is going to be pretty frustrating for you in the short term.
edoceoalmost 5 years ago
Some of my users have reported similar issue to me, we use Google captcha service.<p>I&#x27;ve also had more than the usual amount of blockage by CloudFlare when I&#x27;m visiting sites from my residential connection. The page from CF asks me to contact the site owner (how? I cant get to the site, reminds me of that old &quot;you didn&#x27;t get my email that email was down?&quot;)
duxupalmost 5 years ago
If you try a VPN with a different browser can you pass captcha on another site?
alentodorovalmost 5 years ago
There was an undocumented update to ReCaptcha <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2captcha.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;google-search-recaptcha" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2captcha.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;google-search-recaptcha</a>
emayljamesalmost 5 years ago
I remember there being an issue not long ago with the Safari browser and recaptcha. It would do as you described.