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Second this.

For a major sporting event, one of our sites was heavily targeted by “free TV streaming services” self promoting their stuff.

No amount of Google CAPTCHA or Cloudflare could stop it while keeping it online. Never seen anything like it in my life.

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That makes me so frustrated.

I HATE CAPTCHA's with a passion. They are everywhere and constantly slow me down. And you mentioned, they are likely not helpful in stopping bots.

I almost never see a captcha. On a static fiber IP - 1GB. Use chrome. Not sure if that matters.

> Use chrome.

That's why. Try using Firefox without being logged in to Google and with an ad blocker - you really won't like it.

I’m using Firefox, and are often doing stuff in Private Mode, where I’m not logged into Google, and am using uBlock, and Firefox’s strict tracking protection. CloudFlare and Google doesn’t serve me any CAPTCHAs.

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