[AnbeSivam]

> hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare

Anyone facing issues with Cloudflare's captcha. Not just for this site, I have faced this issue with other sites too. Only around 50% of the time I am able to get past their captcha, most other times I just get frustrated and close the page.

[throwaway160722]

As a legally blind person it is impossible to prove me not being a robot by demonstrating the use of human-like visual capabilities. Other CAPTCHAs offer audio alternatives, but not reCAPTCHA. When I contacted Cloudflare's support about this, they first required me to associate a business account with my private request and then deflected from the accessibility of reCAPTCHA:

> The issue you are experiencing is related to the security settings that the administrator of the website you are visiting has set.

Maybe I should have been more persistent for Cloudflare's sake, but when you're frustrated it's not really easy to be politely persistent. So, now I'm just voting with my clients' wallets.

[uremog]

Does ADA mean that they can be sued over this? Or is that not how it works?

[icebraining]

reCAPTCHA does have an audio option, and it seems to be accessible to screen readers, as detailed in this blog post: http://terrillthompson.com/blog/682

When the checkbox is clicked, a visual puzzle appears; right below, there's a button that can be clicked to switch to the audio captcha. Here's a demo: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo

[throwaway160722]

Thanks! That should have been Cloudflare support's answer. I did not detect the three pictograms as they were contrast-"enhanced" away. The non-visual reCAPTCHAs I now get are even passable without sound.

[mountaineer22]

Section 508 violation?

[michalskop]

I used to have that for a very long time. (CloudFlare became the company I hate most on the net.)

[zzzcpan]

It's sad, such a nice company, but they somehow cannot stop pissing people off.

[anacrolix]

I'm still pissed about a terrible interviewing experience I had with them.

[the_mitsuhiko]

Where are you from? I keep hearing that people get captchas but I wonder what triggers it. I have only seen it from a Russian hotel IP so far.

[anexprogrammer]

I use a popular VPN when out and about with the laptop. Even with a UK connection I get Cloudflare captchas probably 75% of the time on VPN.

Not only does it trigger a captcha but a site that does so, if you're browsing a while, usually triggers another in 20-30 minutes. They don;t cookie the browser in any way, so if I happen to be browsing HN and go to 4 or 5 different Cloudflare links I get 4 or 5 captchas. Each with 20-30 minute refresh timeouts ticking.

Mostly these days, unless it's a rare site that's worth the hassle, I close the tab rather than faff ticking boxes identifying road signs.

So from this data point of one, Cloudflare costs sites traffic.

[AnbeSivam]

India, using a low grade ISP. May be it is that my ISP has very limited number of IP addresses, and he shares the same of IP with many users.

I have noticed the issue with IP addresses in Indian train ticket booking site also. Tatkal train tickets [1] open at a specific time of a day, and there is a huge rush to book tickets at that time. and the site allows only 2 tickets for an IP. Sometimes when I try to book Tatkal tickets, I would be denied because of some else already having booked from my ip. so I wondered whether my ISP has been lending some of it IPs for some automated train ticket booking brokers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatkal_scheme

[Fej]

Tor especially.

[witty_username]

It works fine for me; it takes maybe 10-20 seconds to solve the CAPTCHA.