When do human-verification puzzles become offensive?

Question

Dropbox prevented me from accessing my account via their mobile website by giving me a multiple-step puzzle to solve, to prove I was human.After completing the first 4 steps, I was given an extra five to solve. To prove I'm human. When I tried accessing an account I use everyday. In a browser which has my credentials already stored.Has anyone encountered similar experiences where these puzzles were more than a little inconvenient?

runawaybottle · Accepted Answer

Steam had me select crosswalks for almost 5 straight minutes. I don&rsquo;t know if my selections were not getting queued on the server (no clue how it&rsquo;s set up), so it almost felt like they had me in a holding pattern selecting crosswalks until they were ready to validate it.

taxcoder · Answer

>When do human-verification puzzles become offensive?When they ask you to select the nudes.

quickthrower2 · Answer

yes but not to that extent. I guess it depends how suspicious they are of your browser fingerprint. Sucks.

When do human-verification puzzles become offensive?

Steam had me select crosswalks for almost 5 straight minutes. I don’t know if my selections were not getting queued on the server (no clue how it’s set up), so it almost felt like they had me in a holding pattern selecting crosswalks until they were ready to validate it.

>When do human-verification puzzles become offensive?
When they ask you to select the nudes.

yes but not to that extent. I guess it depends how suspicious they are of your browser fingerprint. Sucks.