logoalt Hacker News

Hizonnertoday at 6:48 PM3 repliesview on HN

... or you'll need to stop using reCAPTCHA if you want to get any traffic on your Web site.

I know, people will slavishly knuckle under, but let me dream for a few minutes.


Replies

conradfrtoday at 8:57 PM

The thing is even a contact form without something like reCaptcha is doomed on today's web: spam all day.

tardedmemetoday at 6:54 PM

99.999% of people don't give a shit and don't even know what this means. They'll follow the instructions. These are the same 99.999% of people who press win+R ctrl+V enter when the captcha prompts them to. Because do this to see the dancing bunnies.

show 3 replies
nonameslefttoday at 8:38 PM

I have blocked it for years with ublock origin, if a site doesn't work, ctrl-w. Nowadays i cannot even use google search because of this, any search will trigger a captcha, hilarious (atleast on chromium-based browsers, firefox lets me get a page or two).

show 1 reply