Captcha on SP
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Does Google tell you how to make it stop?
Apparently, successfully completing the Captcha doesn't cut it.
Apparently, successfully completing the Captcha doesn't cut it.
I never heard of this happening. Course I've only been here eleven-an-a-half years.
I can't remember ever having to complete a captcha and i buy once or twice per month from sp.com.
Sorry, never had the issue with SP or on SP EU. Some sites I use at work sometimes require that, but seems like once I've done it, they don't require it again unless it's been a long time since I was on the site - just my experience.
Could you email us directly (to the info@ account and they'll get you connected to the right folks here)? There's a long, possibly complicated story here, but basically if you're a human you shouldn't be seeing these.
We know that these tools are ridiculously blunt, but we thought they weren't coming up much following our recent round of changes. There are some situations where they might still appear (like if you live in a house full of pipe smokers who are all browsing SP from the same IP address).
If you're talking about an issue from a couple of weeks ago, we turned that s**t off. It didn't work. It also thought I was a bot.
This, of course, assumes you're a human...if you're secretly a bot, I have some pictures of dolphins and traffic lights for you. They're good for hours of fun.
The general interest part of this is that like a lot of ecommerce sites, the amount of automated traffic of late is staggering, and it's become increasingly difficult to differentiate automated from not-automated traffic.
Sykes
Thanks for the response! I did email customer service and they said they'd pass it on to the "IT tech team and have them take a look at it." As of tonight it's still happening. I go to the site, log in, click on the bulk tobacco tab and get redirected. I'm getting redirected to a Captcha about every second or third time I click on a tobacco, whether or not I'm logged in, and whether or not I complete the Captcha. It wasn't happening the last time I was browsing pipes for the record, just tobaccos. Also for the record, I am not a bot...BELIEVE ME!
If I am a bot...I'm a bot with a credit card, which gets used often on your site. I'm also a bot with a mailing address.I couldn't possibly be the only human this is happening to, with all the site traffic you undoubtedly get. Whatever the point of Captcha is (and I'm sure there's a very good reason for using it), it doesn't seem to be working properly. If I complete the bloody thing, shouldn't it recognise my IP address and stop harassing me?
I was on there the other and I had logged in and I had to go through 6 iterations of selecting matching patterns on tiles. It was pretty annoying.
But I understand the need to manage the automated traffic.
I rarely go to vendor sites these days, as I have no need to buy anything else, other than maybe pipe cleaners. I’ve got about a 4-5 year supply of those.
But I understand the need to manage the automated traffic.
I rarely go to vendor sites these days, as I have no need to buy anything else, other than maybe pipe cleaners. I’ve got about a 4-5 year supply of those.
I don't remember ever seeing these on smokingpipe's website, but when I do run into them, I just stop whatever purchase I was making, and close that browser page on my phone. End of sale for me.
On my phone the images are so small that it is f'n impossible for me to see what is in each square much less picking out the squares with someone picking their nose or whatever. I just avoid the frustration and save myself some money.
On my phone the images are so small that it is f'n impossible for me to see what is in each square much less picking out the squares with someone picking their nose or whatever. I just avoid the frustration and save myself some money.
Seems like IT at SP must have recalibrated their Captcha. I'm not being redirected anymore.
Are you sure that it wasn't simply your inability to recognize a starfish in a group of human faces, or know the difference between a roadsign and a rocket ship, so Sykes cut you a break?
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