Quote from: snipie on March 10, 2018, 11:09:37 PM

I am using firefox latest version, i didn't have a problem until yesterday, i have to solve 20 recaptcha and mind you i have to select sometimes street signs in a photo without any street signs! this is ridiculous and annoying.

Quote from: paxmao on March 11, 2018, 01:33:08 AM

For me it is slow to load and sometimes asks two or three times ... Also it is quite boring... Instead of traffic signs and roads and cars it could be about telling if it is a character from Star Trek or Star Wars ... or if it is a men´s or a woman´s legs or ...

Seriously, it is slow, but I don´t know if there is anything out there that offers the same level of safety and is faster.

As a Tor user, I quickly found the site totally unusuable when I was at Newbie rank. One fine day, after I was forced to try 17 (seventeen) different Tor circuits before I could even get a CAPTCHA thrown at me (!), I finally found a (not very good) workaround:

Quote from: nullius on December 10, 2017, 08:05:58 PM

Well, write off hours wasted trying to coerce fresh Tor Browser to do exactly what I wanted with my precious seventeenth-circuit login cookies (as recovered from the browser console). I finally gave up, and installed a persistent browser exclusively for Bitcointalk.org. After checking the appropriate boxes and only trying three circuits to get a CAPTCHA, I am now allegedly logged in until the year 2023; oh yes, I backed up those cookies!

I thus hope to not be the canary in the CAPTCHA anymore; but I do care about this issue, and I will continue trying to adduce a workable solution.

So... I suppose the least-evil current answer is, check the box to stay logged in; and back up those precious cookies!

There, in this thread, and elsewhere, I have repeatedly made noises about a better solution:

Quote from: nullius on December 08, 2017, 11:01:55 PM

Any which way, if any popular forum has users who can handle public-key crypto, it should be Bitcointalk.org!

However, I never did the writeup I intended on a practical suggestion for achieving that. Back in early December, I hit a stone wall when I researched the topic. Sadly, idiot browser vendors have deprecated the tag reasonably needed for ~~userfriendly~~ not horridly unfriendly setup of TLS client certificates. TLS client certs have other problems, toonot least of which is privacy toward other sites which could fish around for your bitcointalk.org cert; but what else is there? I thought of SSH tunnels, OpenVPN, ad hoc copypasting of challenges signed with a PGP or Bitcoin key... There are not any good options here.

Another problem is, per my repeated inquiries upthread, the purpose of the login CAPTCHA is unclear. If, as I tend to presume, the purpose is to prevent online bruteforce of weak luser passwords (inevitably followed by HELP CYRUS THEYMOS IM HACKED threads), then pubkey auth would be an excellent solution. But if the purpose of the CAPTCHA is to inhibit mass login by spambots, as many others assumewell, then pubkey auth would fix nothing. If this is not a sensitive security question, I ask that theymos provide clarification.

Quote from: snipie on March 10, 2018, 11:09:37 PM

half a month necro/

Half a month isnt really necro, even for a less important thread; and this thread is very important. I hope that this thread will remain semi-active until a better solution is found.