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GeorgeSpelviniii 200 Reviews 858 reads
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Something very interesting just happened as I was browsing reviews.  I was asked by TER to verify that I wasn't a Bot and had to  identify certain squares in the picture the objects that were of the subject matter.

RSpork 23 Reviews 333 reads
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GeorgeSpelviniii 200 Reviews 356 reads
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I was on my iPhone which I've done many many times in the past

Fancy8888 See my TER Reviews 288 reads
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Posted By: GeorgeSpelviniii
Something very interesting just happened as I was browsing reviews.  I was asked by TER to verify that I wasn't a Bot and had to  identify certain squares in the picture the objects that were of the subject matter.

LasVegan 355 reads
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phone lost its connection, momentarily and when it "reconnected" came up on a different I.P. address, causing that sequence of events.

impposter 49 Reviews 328 reads
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I frequently get CAPTCHAs when using TOR to explore ads and escort websites.  E.g., myproviderguide.com almost always makes me prove that I can tell the difference between a house and a potted plant.

OTOH, I don't think that I ever got [edit: that kind of] a CAPTCHA from TER.  

HOWEVER! There seem to be several TOR nodes that will not connect to TER at all. I get timeout errors, "cannot reach node" errors and stuff like that. When I ping TER via some TOR nodes, I get 100% packet loss; traceroute cannot find a path to TER.

EDIT: Just got a PM from BPsan. Must clarify. I do get TER generated CAPTCHAs on TER web forms when performing certain functions on and within the TER website. Problem reports, contact us, etc. Those tend to be the simpler "copy the code" captchas. I get those captchas directly from TER whether or not I am using TOR.

OP mentioned that he "had to  identify certain squares in the picture the objects that were of the subject matter." Those are the captchas I get for ads and websites. If OP was reading reviews and clicked on an outside like he might have gotten that subject-squares captcha.

In regular TER board posts, some submitted images do not load automatically. If I right-click and choose "View Image" I might get a subject-squares captcha from the image hosting site. That site recognizes the TOR node as being very active and possibly a bot so the user (me) has to captcha prove that he isn't a bot.

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