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how often do normal users see CAPTCHAs these days? I seldom see one anymore.

>>adamre+(OP)
I see them all the time. Firefox on Ubuntu.

>>adamre+(OP)
I get them often, especially with more privacy features turned on. But usually a VPN is enough to trigger it when visiting Google domains.

>>dotanc+m1
but where? which websites? I haven't seen a CAPTCHA on the reg since I stopped posting to 4chan some years back.

>>helloj+v1
There’s a select few mullvad addresses that don’t trigger it but the majority I use I’ll get hit with them.

I honestly find it more concerning when I’m expecting one and I don’t get served a ridiculous puzzle to solve.

>>adamre+R1
Most websites have them, just browse in incognito and either override your user-agent to something funky or connect through a known VPN.

>>adamre+(OP)
Quite a few: brave browser + mullvad vpn. I enjoy doing captchas wrong, manly because i can't believe how US fire hydrants, busses, and crosswalks have become so important to me.

>>adamre+R1
almost anything using cloudflare

>>hnav+m4
Ah, just do something completely nonstandard (sans incognito) and the website will stop working.

>>adamre+(OP)
I built a new PC for a friend, and getting the AM5 platform stable was ridiculously challenging, so there were several reinstallations of Windows involved. He didn't use a password manager, so there were a lot of logging in, password resets etc. involved. For virtually every service he had to login to he was asked to complete a CAPTCHA. For Steam in particular: he had to do the first login on the website, because the CAPTCHA inside the application appeared to be bugged and was more like psychological warfare than human-verification. The frustration was palpable.

Also turn on a VPN some time (a signal to Google et al. that you're trying to bypass content region-restrictions, or funnel mobile traffic through an ad-blocker) and you are basically guaranteed to see nothing but CAPTCHAs from the predominantly CloudFlare owned and operated Internet.

So yes, it's a big problem, but only if your web environment (tracking metadata) are not sufficiently "trusted" :D