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I can’t stand CAPTCHAs. I assumed I’ve been seeing them more and more because I use a password manager and websites flag this as a possible bot. Anyone else?

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I assume it’s because I’m using macOS/iOS content blocker and it’s blocking stuff the websites were using to identify me.

I use first party isolation in Firefox so I trip the worst possible challenge for every captcha.

I think it's awful we've allowed Google to trick us into placing trackers on every site in existence that also force us to do free work for them. There has to be a better solution.

Also, they're getting significantly harder/adversarial as bots get better. I've never failed these picture Captchas as often as I have the last three weeks.

I noticed they also get harder on a VPN and I encounter more of them with non-chrome browsers.

How would a website know you use a password manager?

I'd guess a website can trigger off how fast a password is entered in the input field.

That said, I'd expect a large chunk of users to use their browser's password manager, if nothing else.

Password managers can also have a "go & fill" option that opens a new tab with the applicable URL, fills the login credentials, and submits. Even without specifically tracking how fast a password is entered into the password field, a website could trigger for all instances when a user manages to log in within 1 second of the first request.

Interesting: So does Chrome. Sometimes. I've never tracked down what causes it to do this, but there's at least one site I use it with where it clicks "submit" (or some moral equivalent) on its own when filling out the login page.

Probably something the website opted into. No clue.

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