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Cricket Moon
Nov Member 2023

Cricket Moon

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I have noticed this feature is getting worse. It is absurd. It took me quite a few tries to log into the forums, and now I am about to give up trying to log into runemetrics. Apparently I cannot tell a bus from a boat from a train.

24-Jan-2022 20:34:44

Tranq
Nov
fmod Member
2007

Tranq

Forum Moderator Posts: 61,815 Emerald Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile
I'm actually shocked today is the first day in literal months. The forums didn't ask me to identify any sort of vehicle and seemed to remember my machine for more than a day without asking for my authentication code while the remember this machine for 30 days was checked. Maybe were finally getting out of the dark times.

Either that or this morning is an absolute fluke which is possible too.
When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea, when the clock strikes heavy and there’s no time for tea; and in our darkest hour, before my final rhyme, she will come back home to Wonderland and turn back the hands of time.

25-Jan-2022 12:58:08

C a z
Jul Member 2005

C a z

Posts: 4,261 Adamant Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile
Pisses me off so much now I wish there was a tick box to say 'yes im a flipping robot'

gahhhhhhhh Remember Caz. Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

29-Jan-2022 00:54:31

C a z
Jul Member 2005

C a z

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C a z said :
Mod Lyon said :
Google are not involved with our CAPTCHA challenges anywhere on the RuneScape websites, the CAPTCHA challenges are served through a third party who have integrated with 'hCAPTCHA'.

Even if they were, they are not targeting anyone and have no reason to be doing so. If you are continually being challenged, that is likely due to privacy extensions or other changes to do with your device. Any CAPTCHA challenges are not 'we need help to see what trucks look like' but 'this specific request is a little unusual - lets ask them to click the trucks to be sure its a legitimate request'

Sorry but in my opinion, that is utter crap! I have NO privacy extentions, and No other changes with my device.!

So how the heck is my request to log onto the forums a 'little unusual'.?

No answer from Mod Lyon of course :@ Remember Caz. Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

29-Jan-2022 01:07:39

Tranq
Nov
fmod Member
2007

Tranq

Forum Moderator Posts: 61,815 Emerald Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile
Tranq said :
Either that or this morning is an absolute fluke

fluke it was had to identify three times in the span of 10 minutes.. Maybe they making up for treating me nicely before, here we'll give ya extras...
When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea, when the clock strikes heavy and there’s no time for tea; and in our darkest hour, before my final rhyme, she will come back home to Wonderland and turn back the hands of time.

29-Jan-2022 12:55:54

PiraBob

PiraBob

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I don't mind it much, I'd rather have this than have hundreds of bots spamming threads every day. I visit some other forums where it literally is that bad. And on Runescape forums the Forum mods can't even delete threads, they can only lock and hide, the spam still pushes legitimate stuff down even after the mod deals with it. Bob

29-Jan-2022 17:39:35

Applejuiceaj
Nov
fmod Member
2011

Applejuiceaj

Forum Moderator Posts: 44,941 Sapphire Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile
I've had to answer one captcha for just about every login for awhile now, which I've grown accustomed to now (though when I do get re-logged after inactivity, I don't always bother to sign in right away again).

Today though I've had a new one:

- Captcha
- Entered username and password
- Captcha
- Entered Authenticator code
- Captcha
- Signed into website

Its one thing to ask it once at login time. That's pretty commonplace. However, no person should ever have to answer a captcha 3 separate times during one single website login attempt. This wasn't it marking the answered captchas as incorrect either - after each stage of the login process, the page would reload and come up with the "We are checking your browser" captcha page before progressing to the next part of the process.

As someone who has had to implement captchas on websites before I understand the benefits it can have to protect against bot attacks and similar - and understand that a third party provider may be the one who is making the determination as to whether to prompt the captcha or not. However, no legitimate user should ever have to go through 3 captchas to login, ever. That's just ridiculous.

29-Jan-2022 20:41:35

Archaeox
Dec Member 2011

Archaeox

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Megycal said :
I don't know what's changed but I'm getting captcha almost every time I log
and
every time I log out for the past couple of days. :@ :@ :@

Something has definitely changed.
Having been pretty much immune from captchas previously, I'm now being asked for them on every forum login. In one case, twice before being able to enter my login info.
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02-Feb-2022 12:47:02

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