Never used to have to do a capcha completion to sign in here, but damn it's annoying. Can we find another solution to that, guys?

I completely agree. Capchas are not Tor Broswer friendly and it takes at least 2 minutes of clicking images to log in. I get that e6 wants to protect themselves from bots but I'd like to protect myself from my ISP and everything else that wants to spy on my browsing.

There has to be a better solution to this problem.

Yea that reCaptcha is really annoying can't even login on my Main Browser since reCaptacha refuses to connect with the Internet for unknown reasons.
(Opera best Browser)

wintersink said:
I completely agree. Capchas are not Tor Broswer friendly and it takes at least 2 minutes of clicking images to log in. I get that e6 wants to protect themselves from bots but I'd like to protect myself from my ISP and everything else that wants to spy on my browsing.

There has to be a better solution to this problem.

then stop using tor

Hey hey, ho ho

cactus said:
then stop using tor

This. Tor is severely compromised at this point, so you're not hiding anything, and just slowing your page load times for no reason.

lance_armstrong said:
Hey hey, ho ho

WE'RE HERE
WE'RE QUEER
WE DON'T WANT ANY MORE CAPCHAS

I was just going to start a thread to complain about it, but someone else did it first.

wintersink said:
I completely agree. Capchas are not Tor Broswer friendly and it takes at least 2 minutes of clicking images to log in. I get that e6 wants to protect themselves from bots but I'd like to protect myself from my ISP and everything else that wants to spy on my browsing.

There has to be a better solution to this problem.

A TOR frienly self hosted CAPTCHA like the one on [REDACTED].

polarius said:
Yea that reCaptcha is really annoying can't even login on my Main Browser since reCaptacha refuses to connect with the Internet for unknown reasons.
(Opera best Browser)

Very often reCAPTCHA loads very slowly or fails to load when i use mobile internet.

Can we at least get an explanation as to why?

Actually I like the capcha more than the cloudflare error message, you get, if there is a ddos attack. Which you can't click away within seconds. And using the tor browser, in a country that allowes content like the stuff you can find on e621, ist totally overkill.

dubsthefox said:
Actually I like the capcha more than the cloudflare error message, you get, if there is a ddos attack. Which you can't click away within seconds. And using the tor browser, in a country that allowes content like the stuff you can find on e621, ist totally overkill.

How would a capcha on the login page do anything to protect against a DDoS?

Doesn't a lot of websites have captcha during registeration and login? I remember furaffinity even seperately implemented it after one of the hacks and made login page use SSL when rest of the site didn't.
Without any protection one could really easily just make bots to try out passwords from leaks from elsewhere to gain access to accounts with ease.

So how do you guys use literally any other website? Or is there some additional problems on this websites captcha implementation compared to others?

polarius said:
Yea that reCaptcha is really annoying can't even login on my Main Browser since reCaptacha refuses to connect with the Internet for unknown reasons.
(Opera best Browser)

Opera has a looooot of extra layers of stuff implemented and applied from VPNs to blockers, so it wouldn't surprise me if things were malfunctioning and some blocker was incorrectly blocking catpcha from accessing stuff.

wat8548 said:
How would a capcha on the login page do anything to protect against a DDoS?

uhmm... captchas are made for stuff like this. A quick google search reveals the full name of this acronym (Completely Automated Public Turing Test) I basically checks if you are a human or not.

If you mean the "Click here" to prove you are not a robot on a white background that doesn't at all look like e621, mixed feelings about it:
1. It is good because it prevents people from bypassing the API to scrape.
2. It is bad because it redirects people to /, which is highly annoying if I have opened multiple tabs. Kira pls fix.

Literally all it needs is to look at the referrer, or to include <input type="hidden" name="return" value="/post/6268" /> so that it doesn't ruin the user experience.

If you mean cloudflare captcha, lmao no, that needs to stay.

Ok. I have a question.
How often do you have to solve this highly complex captcha?
I spend way to much time on e621, tagging stuff, and I have to solve it maybe once a day. Sometimes 2-3 times a day.
(I assume this happens, if there is much load on the servers and the ddos protection kicks in)

And if you have multiple tabs open, just solve it in one of those, and you can keep going in all other already opened tabs.

dubsthefox said:
uhmm... captchas are made for stuff like this. A quick google search reveals the full name of this acronym (Completely Automated Public Turing Test) I basically checks if you are a human or not.

Since when was logging in a necessary part of spamming the site with SYN packets or what have you?

wat8548 said:
Since when was logging in a necessary part of spamming the site with SYN packets or what have you?

The captcha when logging in should be against automatic generated bots that could do massive tag vandalism. And the one that pops up occasionally is against ddos attacks. That's at least how I imagine how it works.

Resolved.