I have noticed lately that several sites I’ve tried to login to, some I already have an account, some I am trying to make a new account give me what seems like endless captchas.

The two notables ones from my memory, Etsy, where I’ve had an account for years and have 2fa enabled ffs. The other Unity, where I’m trying to make an account to join a friends Organization.

After several minutes the captches just seem to keep going and I get more and more frustrated to the point I just give up and don’t login (which is not really an option with my Etsy store).

My setup isn’t anything crazy, Firefox, Fedora 40, no vpn’s or anything. Always from either my laptop or gaming system.

Does anyone else have this issue? What are the options?

EDIT/UPDATE: I disabled ublock origin long enough and only got one captcha. Seems google is trying to punish people using that. EDIT2: Spoke too soon, got my email verification, clicked through and back to endless captcha’s… ffs

  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    This sounds like what TOR users run into. Are you always clearing your browsing data/cookies in Firefox? A fairly blank slate there will raise some red flags in a lot of systems causing the captchas to be aggressive.

    Otherwise, maybe you just ended up with a bad IP address that was previously being used for suspicious bot looking traffic?

    I would definitely submit a ticket to Etsy about this issue, but this is likely an issue with captcha or whatever they’re using to detect “suspicious activity”.

    Edit: I just tried logging in to Etsy and it gave me about 4 captchas for signing in with a “new device”.

    Looks like google really needs help training their self driving cars.

    • mortalic@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      Never tbh, only when I run into a crazy issue on a site. My go to us first diable ublock origin second is clear stuff. I haven’t had to do that in quite some time.