[anilakar]

Heck, I cannot even pass ReCAPTCHA nowadays. No amount of clicking buses, bicycles, motorcycles, traffic lights, stairs, crosswalks, bridges and fire hydrants will suffice. The audio transcript feature is the only way to get past a prompt.

[josteink]

Just a heads up that this is how Google treat connections it suspects to originate from bots. Silently keeping you in an endless loop promising reward if you can complete it correctly.

I discovered this when I set up IPv6 using hurricane electric as a tunnel broker for IPv6 connectivity.

Seemingly Google has all HEnet IPv6tunnel subnets listed for such behaviour without it being documented anywhere. It was extremely annoying until I figured out what was going on.

[n4r9]

> Silently keeping you in an endless loop promising reward if you can complete it correctly.

Sounds suspiciously like how product managers talk to developers as well.

[anilakar]

Sadly my biggest crime is running Firefox with default privacy settings and uBlock Origin installed. No VPNs or IPv6 tunnels, no Tor traffic whatsoever, no Google search history poisoning plugins.

If only there was a law that allowed one to be excluded from automatic behavior profiling...

[marssaxman]

There's a pho restaurant near where I work which wants you to scan a QR code at the table, then order and pay through their website instead of talking to a person. In three visits, I have not once managed to get past their captcha!

(The actual process at this restaurant is to sit down, fuss with your phone a bit, then get up like you're about to leave; someone will arrive promptly to take your order.)

[eddythompson80]

I’ve only seen that at Asian restaurants near a university in my city. When I asked I was told that this is a common way in China and they get a lot of international students who prefer/expect it that way.