Ask HN: Excessive Number of Ebay Re:Captchas?

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by x14km2d • 5 years ago

7 9 5 years ago

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I just wanted to buy an Arduino programming book on Ebay and should pass a Re:Captcha at the end. After 11 Re:Captchas I canceled the purchase and ordered the book from Amazon. Has this also happened to you, that you had to fill out so many Re:Captchas?

PaulHoule• 5 years ago

Not on ebay but on other sites yes.

hulitu• 5 years ago

A lot on yahoo lately. Need to find another email provider.

iefbr14• 5 years ago

Never on ebay and I always cancel when I get a second one on other sites.

ZeroGravitas• 5 years ago

Do you have any kind of browser extension installed? Does it still happen when you run a totally fresh user profile?

ratcline• 5 years ago

Re:Captcha uses your IP and Google account to try to determine if you're a real human or a bot. If you're signed into a brand new Google account, or logged out of one, it'll be more likely to prompt for Re:Captcha.

armchairhacker• 5 years ago

This happened on Steam before. The real issue was that I accidentally locked the reset password function, but instead of saying Steam just game me infinite captchas. I finally found my initial password.

So it’s probably blocked you for some reason, and instead of saying this it’s giving you infinite captchas.

guilhas• 5 years ago

Web in general, yes just crazy now and then endless captchas, more than 2 or 3 I just leave it. I breath when I see other captcha brands

On eBay when I check view sold items, I get a captcha, not many times endless. Some months ago I was getting 2 different sets of captcha at login.

Annoyingly now when I click in some high level sub menus I am asked to login again on mobile web. Looks stupid

ev1• 5 years ago

ebay uses an extremely invasive persistent tracker that also port scans your LAN through your browser, port scans localhost, loads webgl, every media plugin, canvas, etc.

if you block any of this (a default uBlock origin is enough, easyprivacy list), you are flagged heavily as fraud.

x14km2d• 5 years ago

Yes. It's uBlock. Tx for your help.

Ask HN: Excessive Number of Ebay Re:Captchas?

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