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Nip google Captcha in the bud
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fronzelneekburm See related:
www.gog.com/forum/general/what_is_with_the_gog_captcha
www.gog.com/forum/general/captcha_to_log_in
www.gog.com/forum/general/what_the_gog_remove_the_captcha_login_requirement
www.gog.com/forum/general/game_codes_captcha_wont_load
www.gog.com/forum/general/3_minutes_to_log_into_gog_get_rid_of_that_captcha_please
www.gog.com/forum/general/note_to_gog_staff_you_really_need_to_sort_out_this_captcha
www.gog.com/forum/general/please_remove_that_google_captcha_malware_from_login
www.gog.com/forum/general/the_google_captcha_is_an_insolence
www.gog.com/forum/general/the_joy_of_craptcha_china_edition
www.gog.com/forum/general/support_request_cant_send_tickets_to_support_because_of_crapcha
Gog, do your paying customers a favor and get rid of google Captcha!
BahamutBBob I have never run into captcha on this website. Until I redeemed my Twitch Prime games this month. Every game I had to do 2-3 captchas to redeem. What?
bardberic221 It's literally not working on my computer. I can't create a new account for my brother.
itsnotatuxedo It's not even about us being the slave labour training AI anymore with reCAPTCHA's v3. The AI we've been training is now running in the background and automatically subjecting all of us to algorithms instead. So it's not even visible to the user anymore and as such, no way to opt-out apart from blocking the scripts which shouldn't be needed for the average user. As it currently stands, I will cease doing my business on GOG until Google has been rooted out.
ShadowSon I am getting sick of the crappy images and having do to one after the other after the other..if your wish was to annoy your customers and deter purchases?
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
GET RID OF IT.
KnossosDomovoi Today, once again, I did not buy a game because GoG uses ReCaptcha. I refuse to do slave labour for Google's AI classification engine and do not want to send additional data to Google. These discounts are useless to me. I'll either buy the game at a higher price if I really want it, or not buy the game at all. The discount on price isn't really worth sending my data to Google. I value my data a lot more than the price of a game.
tyberon138 The very one store, which claims to be all pro-customer, throws the most actively annoying security service at them. Those captchas are not any better than most of the otherwise condemned DRMs. It's tempting to migrate to a different store, when you -f.e.- can't even easily see, how much a game is discounted, when you receive one of those exclusive codes.
fridgeband please!
fronzelneekburm 451 votes! Ray Bradbury would be proud!
§pec†re It's bad. It grabs your data,steals your work and screw up your logins.
Fonzer Get rid of it. Can't redeem any codes on GOG anymore on win xp mypal browser
novumZ I just bought CP2077. No game discs inside, won't let me redeem my code even after allowing re-captcha ;(
Aikahu The Google reCAPTCHA is preventing me from redeeming a pre-order key I purchased on GOG's "redeem" page. It also prevented me from contacting tech support about the same problem, since the tech support page was also locked behind the reCAPTCHA.
fronzelneekburm www.gog.com/forum/general/unable_to_redeem_key_or_contact_gog_support_due_to_google_recaptcha
fronzelneekburm www.gog.com/forum/general/captcha
An_dz Use Hcaptcha. It respects users privacy, actually helps people and even pays you.
drmsux Or at least figure out some alternative anti-robot scheme that doesn't do favors for Big Data at the expense of your users.
fronzelneekburm www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_captcha_deception_for_newsletter_clicks/
LordEbu I don't need to solve an annoying captcha to train someone's AI system. It is annoying and we'd be better without it. Same goes for telemetry - I'm looking at you, Galaxy client.
fronzelneekburm www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_captcha_deception_for_newsletter_clicks
fronzelneekburm Another satisfied customer: www.gog.com/forum/general/recapcha
fronzelneekburm www.gog.com/forum/general/captchas_for_discount_codes/page1
gogtrial34987 www.gog.com/forum/general/cant_redeem_games_because_of_broken_recaptcha_what_do
uberlobster CAPTCHAs are for-profit, unpaid work. I don't recall encountering a CAPTCHA on GOG, but I'll most definitely oppose anything CAPTCHA.
ramma Been locked out of GOG Galaxy for a good 6+ hours now because of reCAPTCHA thinking I'm a bot after failing so many blatantly correct ones. I skip the traffic light because it's too ambiguous as to whether they mean including the pole or not, but literally no buses left, found all the bikes, all the store fronts, heck I even had a fire hydrant one which they're almost all the same shape and color so failing that would have been crazy... nope, it still thought I failed it...
Google literally has a "no user friction" version of reCAPTCHA. If you seriously think it's necessary, please implement reCAPTCHA v3 so we can have the 1 click captchas without the broken image guessing games. developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3
votoms90 Fucking numerous ridiculously ambiguous imagines of intersections asking me to select the traffic lights just so I can log into galaxy. The barely visible traffic light the would need to to click most of the boxes ? or how about the 5 images of a bus that weren't a bus or being ask to select a "motorcycle" when there is only a tiny corner box of a moped?
Get fucked GOG never downloading galaxy again until its fixed.
vdorie I think one or two screens of clicking on street lights and fire hydrants is more than enough, and after 4+ I just uninstalled the client. We're customers of yours, not free labor for Google/Waymo.
njsbxxx This is a terrible feature that adds significant friction both when trying to purchase from you and when trying to log into your desktop client to play. You, GOG, have no control over the amount of friction - I just gave up trying to log in to GOG Galaxy and am DLing all my purchases offline, because I *literally couldnt log in*. I just had to do an apparently endless (screen after screen after screen) of image classification for google. You've lost a user of your client over this (this point of the client from our perspective is that it's easier to play games, not harder) and the next time that I can't log in to make a purchase then you'll have lost a customer too. Bizarre that you would cede control over such an important part of the user experience to google, who has no investment in your users or incentive to balance their priorities (prevent robots gaining access through RECAPTCHA while enjoying plenty of free labour) with yours (don't ask your customers to do a stupid and frustrating thing with no time limit). You're letting google bounce a lot of legitimate customers with no benefit to you.
gogtrial34987 www.gog.com/forum/general/cannot_play_my_game_via_gog_galaxy_client_bc_of_recaptcha
fronzelneekburm www.gog.com/forum/general/fix_the_verify_you_are_human
fronzelneekburm www.gog.com/forum/general/for_the_love_of_god_stop/
camilus Not just captcha, please remove all of their (and other) scripts from companies known to collect personal data without explicit consent from people and the without the ability to revoke your consent at any time and/if and when you do that delete all of the data collected including backups. Technically this is not a problem. If the data is encrypted with a unique key for each user deleting that key effectively deletes the data (assuming the keys aren't generated in way that isn't close enough to random, that they are long enough that they can't be brute forced and that the algorithm used or the specific implementation aren't flawed). Th In addition to what they say they do they also spy on users.
Also by solving reCaptcha you are training Google's AI so they can spy on you even better.
fronzelneekburm www.gog.com/forum/general/google_captcha_wtf_gog/page1
fronzelneekburm www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_site_annoyances/
fridgeband I don't like google captcha. It is the most frustrating and customer unfriendly tool in the entire world. Please remove this and add your own gog.com made captcha. google treats everyone sort of like EA in my opinion. (not very nice)
evethewhiterabbit No site should require consent to third party policies (privacy or otherwise) for basic functions to be accessed.
ZocomMAX Spent 9 minutes getting through clicking pictures to log into my account MONTHS ago. Like really now... Get rid of this captcha crap on my game site.
AstralWanderer Just tried to raise a support ticket and the support page now requires a Google CAPTCHA! To make things worse, if your ticket has to be edited (e.g. to include more data) then the CAPTCHA has to be re-taken.
If there is one thing that shows contempt for customers, it is adding extra artificial hoops to jump through when they wish to report a legitimate problem.
windows665 We are unknowingly training Google's AI to be a skynet and this is not fine. Google has been really invasive recently and WE are used as a product, we need to stop letting google grab all the power from the internet.
SKARDAVNELNATE I always have to do 4 or 5 of these things because I keep failing them.
hmcpretender I confess: I never succeded in solving the street signs captcha. It should be the easiest but somehow it never works for me...
Crynux I'm tired of selecting cars and street signs. Please ease our pain!
alexandre9099 Please remove that sh** from your website, there are some implementations in php that are actually easy to do and not too resource hungry
Onlooker Get rid of Google's recaptchas, GOG. Not only is it incredibly annoying, it also takes advantage of internet users to help Google teach their AI how to recognize pictures better, without their consent, of course. This is borderline slave labour.
www.techradar.com/news/captcha-if-you-can-how-youve-been-training-ai-for-years-without-realising-it
Wuffyhumps PLEASE axe Google captchas completely from your website, otherwise I'm not going to support GOG.
Google farms out its image recognition work to unpaid workers (us) in order to train it's AI and then sell it to the military industrial complex for use in drones. Several Google employees resigned from the company after this was discovered as this clearly violated Google's own "don't be evil" mantra, something they've since gotten rid of.
Not even my banking websites require Google captchas as there are many other ways to secure a website, ones that are way easier and not intrusive.
Do NOT help Google train their AI and do NOT support drone strikes. Get rid of your Google captchas!
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