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Bot protection
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Bot protection, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Keyboard-driven users may be blocked with a generic error and no way to know why2025-06-25
- Legitimate users with unusual browsers or no referrer get blocked and can't get back in2025-03-26
- Click-and-hold bot check takes 6-7 seconds and repeats three times in a row2025-03-14
- Reloading a page a few times on a bad connection gets the user blocked outright2020-04-06