alt Hacker News> These are all [CAPTCHA] issues that can be improved.
No. This is not a new issue. The problems have been there for many years. You can't claim "working on it" - which is not even what you are claiming.
By now, recognize that if the users themselves are fighting this crap or avoiding the sites and companies that use them, it's entirely deserved. By setting CAPTCHAs, you attack your users. (Witnessed in 2024, an insurance claims form which demands that a CAPTCHA be solved but shows no CAPTCHA. This crap is now so common it can now be used to delay insurance claims!)
> You can't claim "working on it" - which is not even what you are claiming.
I can, actually. :) I'm part of the team at https://friendlycaptcha.com/ and we agree that most CAPTCHAs suck. But we also believe that these issues can be improved, if not outright solved—at least the UX aspects.
I was doing my best to avoid bringing up my employment, since these are my own opinions and I didn't want to promote anything, but I might as well mention that there are people working on this. There are similar solutions from Cloudflare, DataDome, and others.
If you're having an annoying CAPTCHA experience in 2024, that's mostly due to the particular website choosing to use an annoying CAPTCHA implementation, or not configuring it properly. As I've said numerous times in this thread, distinguishing bots from humans will never be 100% accurate, but the alternative of not doing that is far worse. So we'll have to live with this if we want the internet to remain usable, and our efforts should be directed towards making it as painless as possible for actual humans.