ReCaptcha extremly slow fading

[exocode]

hi there,

since some months (as I remember it is maybe July) the recaptcha fades aout and reappears veeeery slow. And if I solved it, it means that I solved it wrong. I dont know how many forms I had to re-fill-out because of that. That's the reason why I open this issue.

I found out, that this mostly happens in Google's Chrome itself. When I try to solve the ReCaptcha in Safari, it works blazingly fast. I deactivated every Extension but that wont solve my slow Recaptchas.

Any ideas how to get rid of that annoying and disappointing issue?
(Version 69.0.3497.100 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit) on a Mac (10.13.6 (17G65))

many thanks in advance

(you can see it here in action: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18EzfmS-synbS6YKEVmV5Wf2yIGBVh1Ee/view?usp=sharing )

[vertigo220]

This has been an ongoing issue for me for at least several months as well. And as if it's not bad enough, oftentimes one or two of the images will be matches five or six times in a row, meaning I have to click, wait ~5 seconds for the new image to load, click, wait, click, wait, click, wait. It gets old, especially when I do all this and it just loads a whole new recaptcha, over and over. I have literally (yes, literally) spent 10+ minutes trying to get a recaptcha to work, probably on at least a couple occasions, and it typically takes at least a few minutes. It's beyond ridiculous.

[gingerbeardman]

I have also seen this around.

Net result is the browser running so slow it's impossible to interact with either the captcha or underlying page.

Console log shows that it is related to CSP implementation not being right for Safari?

Using: Safari on macOS 10.13.6 (17G3025)

Two related bug reports:

• in use on a website High CPU usage in Safari due to incomplete recaptcha+CSP implementation  simon987/od-database#5
• in an Electron app Captcha is wonky on macOS itchio/itch#2156

[theshopeac]

I enter sweepstakes online. It is NOT your browser unless you can't connect to recaptcha at all. On one particular site I frequent that puts on about 65 sweepstakes of their own, the first ten or so I enter are either just a checkmark or single recaptchas, then they go to two recaptchas, then the next sweeps may have three, then four, then the fading ones. There have been times I have had to solve was many as eight!!!! And I have an account with this site!!! It is extremely annoying to have to prove over and over that I am not a robot. It is just a ploy to slow you down.

[TimGoll]

I have the same problem but it is not related to chrome for me. It's related to my google account across all devices. So annoying.

And it's that way since at least 6 months. If not even longer.

[vertigo220]

I didn't mention it before, but for me the problem is mostly with Waterfox. It works fine for me in Chrome, which simply makes me wonder if (and frankly believe) it's because Google intentionally makes it less functional in other browsers. It wouldn't be the only instance of anti-competitive behavior from them. After all, just look at the recent accusation (which I wholly believe) from someone from the MS Edge team claiming Google intentionally keeps changing stuff to cause their services to not work as well in other browsers. It's certainly something I've been noticing for a long time.

Anyways, I've completely given up on the picture captchas, and have found the audio ones work significantly better. I hesitate to even mention that, because I don't want to point it out to Google so they can break that, too, but anyone having issues with the ReCaptcha system should try that. And a hint: you don't have to type all the words it says, just one of them.

[gingerbeardman]

After reporting my bug above (I think talking to a brick wall) I emailed support@recaptcha.net and the Safari issue was fixed promptly. Good luck to the rest of you.

[gingerbeardman]

@Noiwex you know recaptcha 3 doesn't involve any typing or image clicking?

[TimGoll]

Recaptcha3 is without image clicking? Then every site seems to use recaptcha2

[gingerbeardman]

@TimGoll recaptcha v3 is new, so sites need to opt-in to using it instead of v1 or v2

"Introducing reCAPTCHA v3"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbvxFW4UJdU

[gingerbeardman]

@Noiwex I have no idea what you are talking about

[vertigo220]

I hate to be cynical, but that's my concern as well. If R2 works so poorly and is manual, with R3 being automatic, if it also works poorly, just behind the scenes instead, it might make it even harder to prove you're a human. Google needs to make it reliable and consistent before taking away any possibility of being able to work around it when it doesn't work. Not to mention that in my experience, when software makes automatic decisions, it's often wrong. Add to that how often I'm not even able to do a recaptcha because it gives me an error saying it's detected suspicious activity and thinks I'm a bot (what the hell is the point of a system that's meant to determine bot from human if it just assumes you're a bot and therefore doesn't even let you do the challenge, and yes, this happens all the time), and I expect R3 to be very problematic. Furthermore, R3 looks very much to me like tracking, as it appears to work by monitoring how a user/bot moves throughout a site, where they go, what they do, which gives Google a very powerful means to track a user across the Internet. At least with R1/2 it was only on certain pages, but R3 will be everywhere from the looks of it, and can't be blocked, otherwise the web will break. I suspect that, like so many things, people will welcome it because it makes things easier only to find years later it's a massive privacy breach.

[TimGoll]

@gingerbeardman he taslks about v2. v2 sometimes lets you solve puzzle after puzzle because it thinks you are a bot. and if v3 doesn't offer any possibility to verify that you aren't a bot it is only going to get worse

[gingerbeardman]

Why worry about something that hasn't happened yet?

Come back here if v3 fails, until then... live a little 👍

[TimGoll]

I get you. But I'm so annoyed of v2 that I don't have much hope for v3