Indeed. This is one of the greatest (and most under-appreciated) irritations of the whole CDN revolution: if you're a site serving 1e6 (or 1e9!) people, and trying to tell humans/computers apart via statistical means, the tail of the "human/computer" distribution really matters. Most site operators also don't seem to realise that the same human appears at the outskirts of the human/computer classification each time, and therefore comes to mightily hate Cloudfare (etc).
My partner uses -- for work -- a vanilla Google Chrome on Windows browsing life. I use, for work, FF on Linux, usually behind a VPN or two in a different country to where we are.
I see maybe....100, maybe, 1000 times more captchas than she does? Embedded reCaptcha JS code on a page inevitably shows me fifteen pages of traffic lights and lets hers go through. Often sites geo-IP me (incorrectly) to the wrong location. It's a very far cry from the HTML 1.0 days. And nobody outside of HN even understands why this is a thing, and an annoying thing at that!
My partner uses -- for work -- a vanilla Google Chrome on Windows browsing life. I use, for work, FF on Linux, usually behind a VPN or two in a different country to where we are.
I see maybe....100, maybe, 1000 times more captchas than she does? Embedded reCaptcha JS code on a page inevitably shows me fifteen pages of traffic lights and lets hers go through. Often sites geo-IP me (incorrectly) to the wrong location. It's a very far cry from the HTML 1.0 days. And nobody outside of HN even understands why this is a thing, and an annoying thing at that!