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Moderator
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Now, every time I now go to the Mints site, I have to click that I'm human AND find all the busses, boats, ect. at least once every day - on all my devices.
Anybody notice that and/or found a way to stop it?
Also, my order status page has changed, On my orders list, items I went and impulsively bought will say 'shipped' on my enrollment orders it now says 'Enrollment shipped' - which I think was a good idea. now at a glance I can tell if my enrollments went through without more clicking on their site and creating more traffic on it.
Don't know of any other changes yet.
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Moderator
United States
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I have not had that problem. If you are using something to block (tracking) cookies or ads, disable it or at least set the Mint site as an exclusion.
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Valued Member
United States
465 Posts |
I have to prove I'm human when I use a VPN.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7276 Posts |
I didn't get the prove you are human. I did see the Enrollment Shipped , which is pretty cool
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 United States
95805 Posts |
Well I found the problem with the mint sire and having to prove I'm a human and getting the CAPTCHA thing. I had gotten of going to the mint site THEN clicking to log in THEN logging in to see my account, I clicked the "Sign in link at the top - once there I had saved it to my Bookmarks. So when I clicked on my bookmark, the page went straight to my login page. It had worked like that for months. Now I have to prove my human status at least once a day on the first attempt, (don't get it after my successful logging for the rest of that day. But just going to http://www.usmint.gov does not do that with the human proving business. So I think it may be a good thing I found that out - If say on a huge release day, I'll use the bookmark link that takes me straight to the login page, prove I'm quasi human, and wont have to worry about it later - say at CHECK-OUT time...(because I will have already proven it.) |
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United States
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Yeah, sometimes saving a bookmark after you log in is going to store extra data in the URL; data that expires or is otherwise invalid after the session ends.
Always check the URL in your new bookmarks and remove anything beyond what is necessary. Test your changes in case you need to try again.
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United States
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Ah, gotcha.
I prefer to bookmark the main page of a site and access the login link from there. Bots often have a more difficult time finding a login from the main page, so they use the direct URL; sites may enforce CAPTCHA when accessing the direct URL to slow them down.
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United States
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sites may enforce CAPTCHA when accessing the direct URL to slow them down. that may be what is going on then. an attempt to catch the bots. So for me, I'll just use the simple un mint.gov URL to browse the site, and the one that takes me through the human proving grounds on sale day and have it done and out of the way early. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If I may, " CAPTCHA " .
I am asking what it stands for, Please.. ? Capture ?
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Moderator
United States
95805 Posts |
I think it is CAPTion CHAllenge
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Valued Member
United States
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a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
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United States
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a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" Correct.  It seemed like a "cool idea" to me twenty years ago, but now it ranks with fax machines as a technology that just needs to just go away already.  |
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Posted 11/17/2021 1:38 pm
