I use a private window on Brave browser. I have set up a passkey for 2 sites, both large companies. However, I am constantly confronted with verification identity screens, like naming which pics have an object in them. Unfortunately, when I solve one, there is an endless loop of them so I back out and simply use my password instead of this tedious and time consuming chore, which kim komando says is just training ai bots. I highly prefer private windows but is this caused by using a private window? I’m trying to do things securely but have limited time and patience for the picture id verification. How can I work around this issue? P.s. I’m not overly technical.
You are correct the those screens help train bots. However, those screens (along with others) help slow or stop people trying to hack into a website.
A neighbor has a small e-commerce business. We see many access attempts from foreign countries trying to hack into his Admin area or worse. ON many of the sites I have manages, a bot would create an account with a fake email address, add an item into the cart and attempt to check out. They were using stolen credit cards as best as I could determine.
These solving questions force a human to answer them. If the bot is programmed to bypass them somehow, the there will be a new challenge created and people will use that one. Sometimes they are a click on all the -type prompt, some have you move a puzzle piece or click and hold your mouse on a spot for seconds.
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This would be a good question for kim kommando because you use the brave browser and you’re trying to use the passkey method via their browser.
She likes out of the ordinary questions.
I am not familiar with the workings of the Brave browser. ( I use DuckDuckGo) In private mode, DDG remembers saved passwords that I use for random sites that I frequent.
I prefer not to use any passkeys because of the ever interfering Google and them trying to sync all passkeys together.
And yes, I’m one of those that memorizes 20 different passwords for different sites because I don’t have 100% confidence in the security of any browser.
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I have my iPhone save the passkey for me when it asks, so much easier then remembering all the passwords.