Dear s of Discogs, your photo captchas are seriously insulting

I will not waste my time clicking thru some idiotic photo CAPTCHA just to see the sales history of album. What is the rationale behind these?

Dear . Discogs do not read the forum. You can raise an SR to ask them why though https://.discogs.sitioby.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

blurayven
What is the rationale behind these?

Probably so people can't scrape the data, which discogs owns.

blurayven
Dear s of Discogs, your photo captchas are seriously insulting

Surely Discogs didn't mean to hurt your feelings

Amazing how the simplest things can be such a disturbance in someone's life. It does make me wonder how serious difficulties are managed.

LasPalmasNorte
how serious difficulties are managed

probably not well

BaldGhost
probably not well

"Mooooooooom! These goddamn sonuvabitch CAPTCHAS won't stop insulting meeee... I need tendies and a milkshake right now or I swear to GOD I'm gonna smash your f**kin' laptop again!" - Eric Cartman

Feel free to click on the parts you like the most.

This sight can be insulting at times.

The other day I wanted to click through from an artist page directly to an album listed in their discography and a prompt popped up on the screen that read “you look like an unwashed perineum”.

That one hurt.

I don't find unnecessary captchas etc to be a small thing. This time adds up, it's an externality pushing an unpaid task on a /consumer/member/reader to protect someone else's intellectual property (and in this case content that other unpaid people actually produced.)

Right now I'm dealing with an email client associated with my URL which used to be proprietary of the hosting provider, and required the usual name and to , and which I could allow my browser to . It worked, never had a hacking issue. Then they sold us all to Microsoft online email services, and the ing me stopped working. OK, a minor pain in the butt, had then to keep clicking " me" which Microsoft refuses to do, and which MS refused to address and my URL host on my behalf refuses to speak with MS about fixing. THOUSANDS of times I've been confronted with a page asking if I want to be ed and I click I do as a precondition of visiting my email, and it never works. Huge cumulative waste of my time and effort, serving two corporations that I pay, much as the OP presumably pays Discogs, possibly both as a buyer and a seller.

But that's not bad enough, now MS has migrated into what they call "2FA" to to my email, which is now in effect something like EIGHT factor authentication. I have to to a different email to get a code to paste into the page, which sends a message to the authenticator app (I had to specifically Google Authenticator because the major authenticator app I already use for other things isn't compatable.) Now I also have to do the phone security to open phone to open authenticator app to do my security pattern AGAIN to confirm I wanted the 2 digit number for email after I've already autofilled my name, and , and copied and pasted the 6-digit number emailed to a different email address. Then after I type the 2 digit number on my phone on the laptop and the email client website on the laptop recognizes it, I have to DO THE SECURITY PATTERN ON MY PHONE A THIRD TIME TO CONFIRM THAT IT WAS ME CONFIRMING THE 2 DIGIT NUMBER TYPED INTO THE LAPTOP. Half the time now the website still refuses to ' me,' so I might be doing this whole procedure 2-3x per day.

NONE of this is for my protection. This is all the result of corporations' lawyers wanting to have counters for court cases surrounding any security breaches. I, the human/customer, have to spend increasing amounts of my limited time on the planet jumping through rote hoops serving the computer and the corporations I pay to use the computer. Those of us old enough to when the internet was exciting and fun and just served you by doing what you wanted to do the first time you requested wanting it done find this infuriating.

Also at the same time I'm copying and pasting 465 334 and manually typing 27, or I'm finding all the crosswalks or bicycles, AI has been programmed to draw pictures and write articles and be creative. Something is wrong here.

Where are these captchas appearing - I never see any on Discogs?

CRItaly
I don't find unnecessary captchas etc to be ...[snip]... wrong here.

All very well and good, and I think that captchas should be abandoned as, with captcha solvers now a thing, they no longer really serve their original purpose, and now only serve to annoy humans instead of prove humans, but this is just a captcha on the function that allows a to see the sales value history for a product. It's not a necessary part of using discogs. You just need to prove you're not a bot in order that you can't scrape the data en masse and use it for... I don't know.. evil, I suppose.

Last night I sent a message to a in order to assist them but I was required to complete 6 captcha puzzles before I could actually press send.

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I don't having to complete this many before! Perhaps the program thought I clicked on an incorrect square and as a result kept bombarding me with more...

Blackpapercrown
Discogs do not read the forum.

I really hope that we can get more staff interaction around here again as we once had. A lot of s were hoping for more when the following announcement was made back in December 2023:

Listening and Evolving: A Message From Discogs’ CEO
https://www.discogs.sitioby.com/forum/thread/1044775

graphictranslation
“you look like an unwashed perineum”.

turn off your webcam- et voila!

carlosthedj
Where are these captchas appearing - I never see any on Discogs?

In the Statistics category "Last Sold" date link. On my PC it only appears infrequently. I don't recall ever seeing it on my android phone.

LasPalmasNorte
carlosthedjWhere are these captchas appearing - I never see any on Discogs?

In the Statistics category "Last Sold" date link. On my PC it only appears infrequently. I don't recall ever seeing it on my android phone.

Ah right - I get a tick box to prove I'm human but no captcha pics etc.

Electro-Magnetic
Last night I sent a message to a in order to assist them but I was required to complete 6 captcha puzzles before I could actually press send.

This happened to me too yesterday. Definitely annoying.

Unfortunately, they are there to prevent bots from scraping the site and until something better can replace them, they're likely to remain.

Thanks a lot Diognes_The_Fox! I really appreciate seeing your reply here. 👍

Previously I having only one or two captcha puzzles to complete when sending out a new message so hopefully this will be the case next time.

Cheers!

Never see CAPTCHAS at all. Where do you see them?

jobuh
Never see CAPTCHAS at all. Where do you see them?

If you get lucky on Discogs, ing another buyer or seller, or on sales history

Yes. Sales History. The first three or four enquiries are no problem, then the captcha's start, just a single captcha for maybe 3 enquiries, then the number of captcha's increases incrementally for each sales history enquiry until you find yourself having to complete 4 or 5 and it becomes a real problem. Shame, as sales history is the best and most accurate guide as to genuine record value and recent sale numbers.