Big yikes if so. The only public-facing part of my stack is Overseerr.

Google hates non chromium browsers

i never know what's expected on those type of captcha. if the handle bars of a bike go into an adjacent box and are 99% covered by a hand does that count? what do you do when you have a blurry image full of jpg artifacts and are asked to identify if it contains a fire hydrant. I'm pretty sure it usually classifies me as a bot for being too exact since I'm asked follow ups for a few minutes until i give up and just close the tab out of annoyance.

You didn't miss it the second time, ALSO FAIL

That's kind of the point, though. You're teaching their AI how to make those decisions.

Yeah, if they want it accessible over the internet, hide it behind a Wireguard tunnel.

I'm sorry for the late reply. I have to admit, I'm not entirely sure in this instance. Google's CAPTCHA isn't something I've kept up on and I too have had issues with it. I've personally done only major squares and squares with a tiny parts too. Both have worked. I'm sorry I can't find you a more complete answer.

*ourr apps, apparently

I get it. I really do. Having seen both the sheer volume of bot traffic and the annoyance of CAPTCHA, it's hard for me to be on one side here. I wish the general public could see the volume of bot traffic we're all contending with but I also get the the internet just gets shitier and shitier.

Am I? Or does it think I'm a bot?

I guess it's on brand for Google to try and squeeze more value out of a product by making it worse for users. Just like Prabhakar Raghavan ruined Google search.

You have to have a Cloudflare captcha solver for some of the *arr stack to work with certain indexers or something, idk. When my old *arr stack died and had to be rebuilt I ran into that problem, and after a short investigation, I promptly said fuck it and learned usenet. So happy that I did.

Wow, agents built to monitor and reflect human behaviour, accurately model and reproduce human behaviour.

This is what is what shits me off when people complain "Oh this AI isn't real AI" or "This isn't consciousness" The limiting factor is is the training data. Humans have just had a few more million years of training data passed on through genetics. It's replication and fakery all the way down. If this is you, if you fucking need the reassurance that you are better at being fucking conscious compare to a machine fuck the fuck right off and go do something amazing with it then. Compose something. Create something. Feel the wind in your hair and the sand at your feet. Fuck off, we're all dirt.

"Hold on, you gotta wait for another picture of a bus to load. Nevermind that it now inexplicably takes 10 seconds to load the fucking picture"

.... That's a lot of expletives for anyone who might have a differing opinion about the nature of consciousness or reality.

I think there's a tampermonkey script that skips the "loading" time. It's jarring but it works.

What does being able to fill a captcha have to do with consciousness? "Wow the ai being good at this pattern matching task surely is proof of it being humanlike because humans are also good at pattern matching!" Is such a stretch, dude.

Something I find really funny is that my residential IP gets flagged 80x more often than any VPN's IPs I've tried.

Although as soon as I see "Please try again" on a captcha, I leave the site. I got stuck on one for like 10 minutes before I finally gave up

Noted.

I calmed down and started searching for some recommendations to counter this view.

Although at the moment I still think The Chinese Room argument doesn't prove what Searle thinks it does.

There was a really interesting video (can't remember the title) that went into Google's captcha specifically, and found that it really isn't designed to detect bots. It's designed to detect a unique digital fingerprint that can be used by advertisers.

So, you can use a really simple mouse script to click the checkbox automatically with no issue, but as soon as you use a VPN you get served with the photo games. It doesn't care if you're a robot, it cares if you're a valuable ad target.

I think the confusion comes from people misunderstanding that cloud flare isn’t being set up in front of the arr stack, Instead, what people are talking about is flaresolverr, an application that helps services like jackett bypass cloudflares verification.