Yeah, I agree. I only get it occasionally, and probably could match up with the occasional time I bother to clear the cache in Firefox.
frontier store recaptcha!!!
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Yeah, I agree. I only get it occasionally, and probably could match up with the occasional time I bother to clear the cache in Firefox.
I always get shown pictures of Motorbikes or hard-core Horse pr0n.
Google.......~~sigh~~
Google.......~~sigh~~
I stopped using Ghostery after I found that their business model is about collecting and selling info about your activity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
Yeah I've noticed a few times trying to use the Frontier store that if you follow certain links within the store it'd get lost in a login loop. When I was trying to buy some of the recent black friday paintjobs, if I clicked on the banner advert it'd get stuck, but navigating through the menus etc. worked OK.
I dismissed at as a noscript / cookie deletion thing - there are a few other sites that insist I re-validate login credentials etc every frakking time, needless to say I don't use them much...
I dismissed at as a noscript / cookie deletion thing - there are a few other sites that insist I re-validate login credentials etc every frakking time, needless to say I don't use them much...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Complaints about the Frontier store
Complaints about the Frontier store
It was a few years ago that I was looking into Recaptcha (webstore I was building wanted a captcha for new account creations), but I am pretty sure that it uses tracking cookies as a way of establishing humanity - the assumption being that a human will browse the internet but a script to attack a site won't. No plausible web activity means you're a higher risk and so get a stronger authentication.
I think it's pretty clever, and a really interesting implementation.
It baffles me that you guys are having trouble with it all. Just remember a nerd wrote it and be pedantic. Is it asking for traffic lights? Well, that pole a traffic light is on might be part of a traffic light system, but isn't technically the light itself, so...
That kind of thinking always gets me passed, at least.I understand things like Ad Blocker and NoScript, but people who are zealous about cookie purging always kind of baffled me. Like, you're not really enhancing your own security there or anything, you're just hampering your own web use to ensure some ad profile database somewhere is wider instead of deeper. Huh? Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
I stopped using Ghostery after I found that their business model is about collecting and selling info about your activity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
Fortunately there is a one simple tick box that prevents that.
Seriously, why would anybody install an app to block private info and then send that private info to the app?
So not only do you provide FDev with terrible ideas, now you’re also a racist?It does some fancy google-fu algorithm-thing to judge your "risk" of being a bot when you click the checkbox. Low enough risk, and it doesn't ask for the pictures. I wonder if those who keep getting it a lot are frequent cache-cleaners or something (using Private Browsing a lot, etc).
Frankly, if Google thinks someone might be a bot to the degree that it shows them pictures to identify, and they fail that as well, then I'm also suspicious of their humanity. Question to you frequent-failers: Do you eat food, or do you charge your batteries?
You should be ashamed... I’m shaking my cold steel finger so hard at you right now.
1. Recaptcha sucks.
2. I do NOT agree to google's terms for using it.
3. When it's blocked, Frontier's website fails to mention that it even needs the stupid recrapcha to log in until after you try.
3b. Google spreads recaptcha's assets over like 4 different domains. So if any one of them is blocked, the whole thing fails spectacularly.
Haven't touched noscript or adblock in a long time. I just block everything by default with umatrix now. I enjoy watching "professionally" made websites break. [yesnod]
2. I do NOT agree to google's terms for using it.
3. When it's blocked, Frontier's website fails to mention that it even needs the stupid recrapcha to log in until after you try.
3b. Google spreads recaptcha's assets over like 4 different domains. So if any one of them is blocked, the whole thing fails spectacularly.
Haven't touched noscript or adblock in a long time. I just block everything by default with umatrix now. I enjoy watching "professionally" made websites break. [yesnod]
It does some fancy google-fu algorithm-thing to judge your "risk" of being a bot when you click the checkbox. Low enough risk, and it doesn't ask for the pictures. I wonder if those who keep getting it a lot are frequent cache-cleaners or something (using Private Browsing a lot, etc).
Frankly, if Google thinks someone might be a bot to the degree that it shows them pictures to identify, and they fail that as well, then I'm also suspicious of their humanity. Question to you frequent-failers: Do you eat food, or do you charge your batteries?
This - as I don't stay logged into a google account at any time and clean cache on every pc I use as soon as I've closed the browser, I get to see a lot of the captcha and recaptcha nonsense - they also don't like ad-blockers.
It's annoying, but I'll put up with it - having worked in IT for over 30 years I won't trust Alexi, Cortanna or Siri with anything ever....
Oh this might be of interest to some - https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
To access the store, captcha for the people who have not yet bought the game.
For the people who have the game, it would be enough to enter a personnal confidential code, for example.
For the people who have the game, it would be enough to enter a personnal confidential code, for example.
Realise this is an old thread but the captcha stuff makes the store & Oauth logins to thinks like EDMC almost unusable for me. Endless... Endless... Captcha checks. Please frontier. Respect your customers. Get rid of this crap. It honestly kills me. And yes, it may be because Im using Chrome with ad blockers, etc, but guess what? I shouldnt ruin the experience of the rest of the web or micromanage whitelists just to g spend money with you. /frustrated and grumpy
Sorry
Sorry
I have no occurrences of this at all on any of my accounts. Suggest you do some repeat visits so that it gets to know you.
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If "it gets to know you" it's because it's storing data about you and also saving data on your pc - I for one will not allow that - plus the related terminate and stay resident crap loaded by the likes of - office 365, dropbox, itunes, spotify and gmail to name a few of the worst offenders, not only compromises security it slows your pc down.
I will put up with jumping through the "captcha" hoops as long as it still works - when it doesn't I won't be purchasing anything anymore.
Extra...HAHAHA
This laughter is because even that admittedly interesting physical copy protection had its flaw, at least on the C-64. If you followed its directions and adjusted the screen for the Lenslok first, you would have to (probably) use the device to read the code generated. But if you didn't do anything, it always started with the same code.