Now it seems progress has become literally impossible because the chess move + the captcha includes digits that add up to more than 25. I guess having to restart is intended to be part of the game, or is this a bug?
I believe the British Airways site still does something similar to this, or it did until very recently if it's been fixed. Add a password that is too long, it gets truncated and the truncated version saved with no warning or error.
It took me several password reset attempts to realise what was going on, as my literally just set and password manager-saved password didn't work.
I think in BA's case the password input also had a character limit on it, which is ultimately how I realised what was happening, even though there was no info anywhere that such a limit existed.
There is an FAQ on each page with a question "What's the time frame for this analysis?", and the answer is posts and comments from within the last two years
About 75% of the times I log on to ebay, (no exaggeration, I only purchase something a few times a year and this happens almost every time), my account gets locked for suspected unauthorised access and I'm forced to reset my password.
I have a static IP, and only ever use the same two devices. I have a strong unique password.
I spent 15 minutes on the phone with their account security team who could tell me nothing about what triggered the lock, nor did they have any advice on what I could do to prevent this from recurring.
Something in their automated system is giving a false positive, and neither I nor seemingly anyone on the account security team has any way to address it.
I had this same issue with "suspicious activity" many years ago, and I had to call a US number to have it sorted. Though I did have it sorted.
They keep spamming me with the meaningless "help us protect your account" emails tho. The kind with a lock icon and zero useful information. I set up a rule to auto-delete those.
It's not just you. I don't have any sources to link to, but 15 years ago a website was frowned upon for having light text on an (almost) black background because it was bad for readability and made your eyes strain.
I tended to agree and find this dark mode craze quite curious because of how the industry has completely flipped its opinion.
Maybe someone has sources/studies that contradict this, but that's my memory of the situation.
This has become increasingly frustrating for me, and I now have to overuse quoting to get the things I want.
Why would I include a word if I wanted results that didn't include it. I could understand that on later pages to include more results, but regularly even the very first results don't include one of the key words in my search.
It feels like Google's "AI" has reached the point of acting like a (rather stupid) human, complete with all the downsides. Many others I know are increasingly frustrated with this behaviour too, and one produced a very apt analogy: it's like walking into a pet store and asking for a specific type of dog, but being told by the sales assistant "would you like to see these instead" and pointing you to all the cats they have.
It's even worse if they helpfully replace the word with a "synonym" (which isn't!) instead of removing it.
Usually the replacement is significantly broader than the original. For example, "Debian" might get replaced with "Linux", giving lots of irrelevant results. Sometimes it will even replace e.g. "FreeBSD" with "Linux", when the whole point of having it in the query was to exclude the irrelevant Linux results.
This drives me insane. In the early days you only got exact matches, now in an effort to sell more ads, or be more “helpful” you get random crap. I would pay for a search that only returned results with the words you entered.
>When I changed my password there, not too long ago, it was worse. The "change password" page (I later discovered) silently cropped the long random password I pasted, while the "log in" page required the saved (truncated) password exactly. I don't know how they expected anyone to figure that out
The British Airways site does exactly the same thing, took me about 5 attempts at resetting my password before I realised what was going on...
Walkers lost the case.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/walkers-min...