On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 20:46:01 UTC, cy wrote:
On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 18:54:47 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Hmm, I almost never get that CAPTCHA, and I don't log in to
the forum. Could be something else about your profile that
Akismet flags: have you tried taking it up with them?
I login here, not with them. They can't tell who I'm logged in
here as, I would assume. I can't expect them to make an
exception for me if I'm not even logging in with them.
I know, I think you'd want to take up the fact that they think
you're a spammer up with them though. :)
Also, they're a huge, faceless corporation that heuristically
targets spammers worldwide, and I don't like the idea of my
activity being profiled worldwide.
It's run by the company behind Wordpress, which has less than 500
employees. Maybe they could sort out why this is hitting you so
hard, when it doesn't affect others as much.
If you don't want to be profiled, you shouldn't use the web, as
it's not hard to track you:
https://panopticlick.eff.org
They do heuristic profiling anyway. They're not supposed to be
relied upon as an ultimate authority on who's a spammer. A
simple counter for how many captchas solved in a given login is
way more reliable than pinging them for the answer every time.
I agree that captchas, particularly the D ones used here, are
better. The forum is OSS and written in D, you can submit a PR
or at least file an issue:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
