Digikey insanely irritating Anti-Robot captcha

[ricko_uk]

Hi,
Digikey anti-robot captcha (screenshot below) got beyond irritating... In the past few months it kicks in more and more often. To the point that in that past few days it kicks in while browsing the website and every 5-10 minutes, easily 20-30 times per day.

Are you guys experiencing it the same insane number of times? And even while browsing the website itself?

Do you have any suggestions how to circumvent that?

Even more stupid is that that have that system where you have to keep pressed the mouse button until the progress bar scrolls all the way from left to right. Which is a total waste of time. They could just use one of those much faster puzzle system where you pick or rotate the part. So instead of 7 to 10 seconds u get it done in 2 seconds at the most.

They must be really on a mission to piss people off and send customers to their competitors... 

Obviously I, and colleagues of mine, will now switch to using other distributors whenever we can and use Digikey only if the parts are not available anywhere else.

Thank you and apologies for the rant...

[Psi]

Most likely digikey is seeing high bots traffic coming in from either your general area, your IP range, or from your public IP specifically.
Due to the limit of IPv4 addresses many people have a shared IPv4 address done with carrier-grade NAT (CGN or CGNAT)
If someone else with the same public IP as you has been doing something dodgy online they may have got the IP you are using on a blacklist or greylist. Or maybe your entire subnet.

You can check for NAT by having a look in your router webpage for your public IP address and compare that to what IP you get from https://whatismyipaddress.com/   If they are different you have been NAT'ed.   It's super annoying,  can also cause issues with emails if someone is sending spam and gets your IP on a spam list.

Some ISP's will give you a static ip if you ask, or if you pay a little more a month.
Also sometimes you can switch to a business plan and get it automatically, but they usually cost more.
Assuming this is your issue.

Another thing you can try is just using a VPN if you have one.

[ataradov]

I'm using a VPN and it only makes things worse as far as captcha go. I pretty much get the captcha  every single time on DK and about 50% of the time on Mouser.

[magic]

They must be really on a mission to piss people off and send customers to their competitors... 

Interesting, I have been having more problems with captcha on Mouser than Digikey.

Shit happens, those systems are crap and they do crappy things randomly. By far the worst offender is one Polish trade platform, which often blocks me if I quickly view the same offer on different browsers from the same public IP, shows some stupid puzzle which I solve correctly and then bans me for a few minutes anyway...

[The Soulman]

Never noticed any of this.

[coromonadalix]

hiding behind a vpn  can be found easily now .. that's why ..........

absolutely no captcha from my side Canada Usa

[thm_w]

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/digikey-access-to-this-page-has-been-denied/
https://forum.digikey.com/t/digikey-blocking-my-web-browser-no-button-visible/34222
https://forum.digikey.com/t/access-to-this-page-hase-been-denied/38505
https://forum.digikey.com/t/digikey-error/38257

[Psi]

I've only seen it i think once, maybe twice.

[Alex Eisenhut]

You want irritating? Try reactivating a Twitter/X account.