Literally every single time I try open their app, I get asked to click the button again to verify that I am indeed human.

On top of that, it doesn’t always work for some mysterious reason, occasionally it ends up short circuiting and looping for a while before showing me the prompt again, and only lets me in on the second or third attempt.

I do realize that since I AM using a VPN to access it, I might be seeing this prompt more frequently than others, but many other sites use the same CloudFlare protection mechanism and I have yet to see one that shows me the prompt as frequently as OpenAI does.

Just thought it’s funny because it’s literally a bot asking me to verify that I’m not a bot.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      You mean captchas? Sure, that’s an old hat, they’ve been doing that for a decade now.

      This is one of those newer systems though that doesn’t rely on a captcha, it’s just a checkbox you have to click that says “I’m human” next to it, and it does some JavaScript magic or whatever to figure out if it’s true. Not really sure how it works TBH.