I am redeeming many codes from game giveaways like on Amazon Prime on GOG and recently ran into the issue that what feels like half the time I have to solve a captcha to redeem the code.
I am not even “spamming” codes, it is like once a week two to three codes. The problem is that the type of captcha GOG uses is very very often completely unsolvable. I have to skip through many until I find one that I have the experience that it will work.
Is there any way around that? I cannot believe people would be spamming codes so much that redeeming them should require captchas.
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They recently announced that this would be necessary. They also said that this would mostly be during peak times, so the moment the Amazon prime codes are released for example. Assuming this is correct, the workaround would be to just wait a day, or 2, or 5.
True, I am not getting this every time. But is today a peak day?
Yes, it’s the first of the month, which is the most heavy of all days for the the giveaways. They sometimes come out on other days, but only a few.
I’ve got Captchas the last few times I’ve redeemed GOG codes. They’re annoying, but I’ve yet to get any that I couldn’t solve.
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Are you sure you’re not a robot?
not sure I misunderstand but it is not I cannot solve them, they don’t let me solve them. e.g. I select everything correct and it still doesn’t confirm the solution.
I don’t remember what kind they use off the top of my head. If it’s “click all the motorcycles” ones, it’s normal for it to take two or three rounds. If it’s the h5Na7 kind, then yeah you should be able to solve it in one go. Maybe try the audio version?
are you using a VPN? any privacy extensions that block trackers and the like? those can sometimes trigger extra captcha checks on websites
no VPN. I have been using other sites for downloading… things, that trigger these often too. they also got more difficult to approve solutions.
now I am not even in my own country and it is the same.
I do some similar stuff, multiple redeems when I remember that Amazon gaming is a thing, but whilst I do get captcha challenges, they are some of the easiest I’ve seen lately. So it is possibly something to do with your specific setup to access their site. No VPN here, and Firefox with Noscript and ublock does not pose any issue, though I obviously have to temp whitelist gog and gog static or whatever are their two domains for the site to even work. I think I have whatever captcha service domain they use permanently whitelisted because some important thing I need to access, related to payments, uses it.
