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craigsters Feb 16, 2024 @ 11:53pm
discord is playing hell on me with it's captcha and I can't escape it
click all that differ, image showed a yellow taxi cab and four random animals and the background is honey comb pattern with the five images floating on it, I managed a circle on one animal and couldn't do the same to any of the other floating animals or taxi cab

And all the CAPTCHA there has this new honey comb background with random images floating on them and don't make sense on what to do, it's like discord wants you to fail at them

I can work with the square grid ones and the stop light bus CAPTCHA images, but the discord ones are to stupid and difficult

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Neurotic Panda Feb 16, 2024 @ 11:56pm 
must be bored tonight.

cool story.

Look forward to the next.
Raelic Feb 16, 2024 @ 11:58pm 
You must be a robot.
-V- Feb 17, 2024 @ 12:00am 
Start with a PC, then move to mobile.

Captcha isn't about getting the right answers. In fact, humans struggle more with captcha than computers do. It's actually measuring your mouse movements, the way you click, how long it takes you. It's harder to do that with mobile, as taps don't quite translate as well. Maybe give it a few extra erroneous taps to show your humanity.

Some verification systems also check your browsing and activity history as well like the "I am not a robot" reCaptcha. If you have no history, it can't reCaptcha you.
Last edited by -V-; Feb 17, 2024 @ 12:01am
Kamiyama Feb 17, 2024 @ 12:00am 
I can't post at 4chan because no matter how hard I try, I can't solve their captchas. I've watched youtube videos how to solve the captchas, and I still can't do it. No matter where I slide the slider, I can see different numbers.

Captcha is pointless now anyway. AI can play chess better than humans, AI can draw artwork better than humans, AI can program better than humans.

AI can solve captchas better too.

Want to verify human beings with captcha? You would verify more humans by letting in only the people who fail the captcha.
craigsters Feb 17, 2024 @ 12:02am 
Originally posted by Neurotic Panda:
must be bored tonight.

cool story.

Look forward to the next.

this email from discord with the subject line showed up at my gmail
Update your username by March 4, 2024
Originally posted by craigsters:
Originally posted by Neurotic Panda:
must be bored tonight.

cool story.

Look forward to the next.

this email from discord with the subject line showed up at my gmail
Update your username by March 4, 2024
You don't need to update it, on March 4th they will automatically assign one if you have not, this is a typical yearly sorting situation where they nuke any accounts that have not been used for 2 years and recycle them down
craigsters Feb 17, 2024 @ 12:17am 
Originally posted by Mischievous Sly Succubus:
Originally posted by craigsters:

this email from discord with the subject line showed up at my gmail
Update your username by March 4, 2024
You don't need to update it, on March 4th they will automatically assign one if you have not, this is a typical yearly sorting situation where they nuke any accounts that have not been used for 2 years and recycle them down


That makes sense, there was some mods for Fallout 4 the mod authors left nexusmods and went to discord for there removed mods and it's been over year sense I played Fallout 4
Dutchgamer1982 Feb 17, 2024 @ 12:40am 
discord must be uninstalled.
I did.

It is a crappy program.. there are other, older and better programs to just chat and voicechat with others without needing to create profiles, and open as much ports to your system/give away as much privacy.

+ it opens your systems for hacking.. and the worst part.,.. it is open to all in a group not just the owners.
-> by merely joining in a group.. it permanently opens a gate to all others who were member or visiting that group at that moment.. even if you leave that group later.. that port won't close as long as you have discord installed.

while I have other layers of protection and they never made it through them.. I did get records of those... and I never has as many attacks/attempts to install keyloggers, do ddos and such.. as when I had discord installed..
deinstalling it.. did noticiple end that issue..

sure I have fixed the open gates since.. but software that need that many holes plugging I not want on my system anyway.
76561198356019466 Feb 17, 2024 @ 12:43am 
i quit Discord because most of their channels require a phone verification, and I don't have one.
the apple one didnt work right even with right code. but if u do th3 audio the code works
Raelic Feb 17, 2024 @ 1:04am 
Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:
discord must be uninstalled.
I did.

It is a crappy program.. there are other, older and better programs to just chat and voicechat with others without needing to create profiles, and open as much ports to your system/give away as much privacy.

+ it opens your systems for hacking.. and the worst part.,.. it is open to all in a group not just the owners.
-> by merely joining in a group.. it permanently opens a gate to all others who were member or visiting that group at that moment.. even if you leave that group later.. that port won't close as long as you have discord installed.

while I have other layers of protection and they never made it through them.. I did get records of those... and I never has as many attacks/attempts to install keyloggers, do ddos and such.. as when I had discord installed..
deinstalling it.. did noticiple end that issue..

sure I have fixed the open gates since.. but software that need that many holes plugging I not want on my system anyway.
Discord is as safe as any other platform with people on it. Including Steam.
Dutchgamer1982 Feb 17, 2024 @ 1:10am 
Originally posted by Raelic:
Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:
discord must be uninstalled.
I did.

It is a crappy program.. there are other, older and better programs to just chat and voicechat with others without needing to create profiles, and open as much ports to your system/give away as much privacy.

+ it opens your systems for hacking.. and the worst part.,.. it is open to all in a group not just the owners.
-> by merely joining in a group.. it permanently opens a gate to all others who were member or visiting that group at that moment.. even if you leave that group later.. that port won't close as long as you have discord installed.

while I have other layers of protection and they never made it through them.. I did get records of those... and I never has as many attacks/attempts to install keyloggers, do ddos and such.. as when I had discord installed..
deinstalling it.. did noticiple end that issue..

sure I have fixed the open gates since.. but software that need that many holes plugging I not want on my system anyway.
Discord is as safe as any other platform with people on it. Including Steam.

no it is not. it is leak as a sieve.. system security wise..
steam has it's flaws.. but it has far more layers of security.. you won't get from talking to another steam user as easy to my IP.. let alone to a point you can try to bruteforce acces.

yes steam itself installs a few things (they collect data about you.. so if you don't shield that.. it will cost you privacy) but it's far harder to use steam to infiltrate other peoples systems.
Last edited by Dutchgamer1982; Feb 17, 2024 @ 1:10am
Raelic Feb 17, 2024 @ 1:18am 
Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:
Originally posted by Raelic:
Discord is as safe as any other platform with people on it. Including Steam.

no it is not. it is leak as a sieve.. system security wise..
steam has it's flaws.. but it has far more layers of security.. you won't get from talking to another steam user as easy to my IP.. let alone to a point you can try to bruteforce acces.

yes steam itself installs a few things (they collect data about you.. so if you don't shield that.. it will cost you privacy) but it's far harder to use steam to infiltrate other peoples systems.
Honestly the way you've described your problems, it sounds like you're one of those that turned off your Firewall like in the early versions of windows. I actually seriously suspect this because you're going in and manually manipulating your ports.

If you're on a more recent version of Windows, your post is utter nonsense. You could also be using a different OS altogether.

Discord is safe. Just use the same safety internet browsing as everywhere else even when using the app.
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