29. März 2019 | 08:41 Uhr

Kommentar: Endlose CAPTCHA-Schleifen für Tor-Nutzer

Tor-Browser-Nutzer kennen das Problem schon lange: CAPTCHAs. Auf Reddit hat dazu jemand einen treffenden Kommentar hinterlassen:

You should not be solving many CAPTCHAs. You can expect to encounter lots of CAPTCHAs if you use Tor but in general you should be walking away from them (Control-w).

It is machines that should serve man, not the other way around. CAPTCHAs put humans to work for a robot, and every time you solve one you help support an instrument that extorts labor from you and others. Businesses lose my business when they force me, the customer, to do a bit of CAPTCHA solving work because their webmaster was too lazy or incompetent to secure things without collateral damage.

If these are CloudFlare CAPTCHAs you are talking about, then there is even more reason to walk away. CloudFlare has centralized over 10% of the web and has visibility on all that centralized traffic including usernames and passwords going over HTTPS. CloudFlare is an adversary of Tor users who has driven many off Tor. Wise users eventually realize CloudFlare CAPTCHAs are unwittingly doing a service by flagging websites you cannot trust because there is a MitM.

If you agree you will then realize that your problem to solve is not CAPTCHAs, but rather to find search engines aren’t rich in useless CF results.

Seiten mit CAPTCHAs einfach wieder schließen. Die sind es nicht wert.

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