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[floobydust]

DigiKey stupid bot check! 
"At DigiKey, we're big fans of Robots." "Our website, however, is still just for humans. Please click and hold the button below to verify you are one."

I want 10 seconds of my life back and sore finger EVERYTIME it shows up. My lawyer bills out well over $1 for that 10 seconds of nothing! A terrible website, still.
You have dozens of analytics companies that know my IP address yet seem to have no idea that I'm not a bot.

Oh look Mouser doesn't have this stupid press and hold crap. A bot can surely "press and hold" anyway?

[ataradov]

Mouser has captcha too. I use VPN and it triggers the captcha a lot. Mouser uses the sliding puzzle piece one.

Just went there and searched for a random part number - got to see a beautiful picture.

No idea how it is supposed to work. This seems trivial for a computer to solve.

[Someone]

No idea how it is supposed to work. This seems trivial for a computer to solve.

Solve it like a computer perfectly straight lines of movement and immediate attention and it'll notice, solve it like a human with wiggly movement and some thinking time and it lets you though.

Better than the aggressive reCAPTCHA tests that if you solve it quickly come back with n more questions until you've done "sufficient" work for google.

[S. Petrukhin]

Shooting yourself in the foot and losing customers is fashionable now... 

I think the simple solution is to update the date in the cookies so that the last captcha check is always fresh.

[tszaboo]

It's because web development today is done by clowns. Also, we changed your completely functional website now, and it's a lot of white space, less info for the screen. But at least it renders on a phone now, that nobody uses.

[S. Petrukhin]

It's because web development today is done by clowns. Also, we changed your completely functional website now, and it's a lot of white space, less info for the screen. But at least it renders on a phone now, that nobody uses.

This is because they are young and have never seen the WinNT (XP classic) interface - compact, intuitive, businesslike and convenient. 

[BrokenYugo]

Glad I'm not the only one who can use a computer well enough I get confused for a robot constantly.

There are businesses/sites I don't use anymore due to this constant captcha crap. Like I don't buy car parts without looking them up first, can't look anything up at Oreilly without constant captchas, so screw em, one of the other big ones in town gets the money.

Making me work to do business because someone else's security sucks is a surefire way to piss me off, if I want to play games I have a large collection of better ones. Besides, didn't pushing buttons all day for someone else used to come with a paycheck? Where's my money for all this work we're doing? I want at least a dollar per interruption.

[S. Petrukhin]

Glad I'm not the only one who can use a computer well enough I get confused for a robot constantly.

There are businesses/sites I don't use anymore due to this constant captcha crap. Like I don't buy car parts without looking them up first, can't look anything up at Oreilly without constant captchas, so screw em, one of the other big ones in town gets the money.

Making me work to do business because someone else's security sucks is a surefire way to piss me off, if I want to play games I have a large collection of better ones. Besides, didn't pushing buttons all day for someone else under to come with a paycheck? Where's my money for all this work we're doing? I want at least a dollar per interruption.

They are excited that someone will use the information for free - they are greedy. 
If you visit to Chinese sites, especially video hosting - there is complete paranoia with captchas.

[ataradov]

Solve it like a computer perfectly straight lines of movement and immediate attention and it'll notice, solve it like a human with wiggly movement and some thinking time and it lets you though.

Well, obviously the solver should add randomness to the movement. Don't even need to do anything smart, just record a few different movement patterns and use those as a solution.

[floobydust]

With such a primitive test "press and hold", I think it's just a money parasite for their website developers to enable.
What will a bot do anyway at DigiKey's website?  Scrape pricing and stock info, for some other distributor to give us a better deal? DDoS attack the 555 timer product page?

Is DigiKey putting any money into their website's customer experience?
I tried looking for a linear voltage regulator and choosing 3.3V output was a nightmare of shit picklists. They are full of stupid.
Any bots roaming that will just get poisoned... oh wait that's their website strategy.  A poison pill for AI and bots.

[thm_w]

Many sales sites use anti-bot measures, aliexpress, taobao, ebay, etc. Plenty of reasons to do so: account hijacks, ddos, payment fraud, hacking, maybe scraping if it slows down the site.

Ranting about conspiracies here will have no impact, either stop using digikey, or tell them you are disappointed with the web experience using the feedback button.

[S. Petrukhin]

Ranting about conspiracies here will have no impact, either stop using digikey, or tell them you are disappointed with the web experience using the feedback button.

I think people have the right and the inclination to share their thoughts with each other.
Just give an opinion and listen to something else. Just to talk about problems, etc.
Maybe this is inefficient, but these are normal people, they are not files that need to be distributed strictly according to the algorithm.
 

[Daixiwen]

You can always get a bot to solve the captcha for you and save some time
https://github.com/dessant/buster

One can dream that one day all those sites will realize captchas are obsolete.