CAPTCHAs

[csforest]

Why am I suddenly getting "I am not a robot" reCAPTCHAs every single time I post a product tonight? I haven't been posting too many or too fast. I just started and have only posted 6 products so far.

[Brownielocks]

It happened to me last night over 30 times.  Tonight it's happening occasionally.  Not sure what sets it off.  But, it's still not totally gone.  Never had this happen before in all the years I've been here.  

[eclipse2024]

I have hundreds of products to post, and I have 10x the mouse clicks on the darn captchas than I do adding products.  I can add double the products to redbubble and society6 in half the time it takes me to post only a few to Zazzle.  This is literally ridiculous.  I am not a bot, and if you want content to sell, please get out of our way while adding it 🙂

[Wintersight]

It looks like this has been going on for over a month now.

It's getting kind of insane.

[CatsEyeViewGift]

I had to do so many captchas last night I was almost in tears.  probably took at least 10 minutes just to get into zazzle.  This morning it was almost as bad - I think I had to go through 5 screens that kept adding more pics as I picked pics. This is ABSOLUTELY INSANE!!!!  I pray customers aren't having to go through this or we'll be losing customers are quickly as us designers are losing patience.

[Gabbie2004]

I just stopped after about 15 tries.  This is absolutely ridiculous.  It needs to be shut off, especially now with the holidays.  Cannot get anything done!

[Brownielocks]

Why is it making us do more than one Captcha!?  After clicking all the hydrants till there are none, then it goes to "next" and I've got to click all the crosswalks, then I've got to click all the traffic lights, bicycles, etc.   It's bad enough to have to do one, but  5 of them?   Why can't these Captchas be removed?  Or is the person in charge of this on vacation?

[WBartworks]

The Captchas increased right before Black Friday, and from what I read on the forum, not everyone experiences them.  What really bothers me is when the Captchas show up right before I want to post a product.  Why does the system require me to do more Captchas when I already had gone through multiple Captchas when logging in?  It makes no sense!  Could it be that the Captchas are used to slow down or limit visits to Zazzle's website and also to limit the amount of products being created?  Zazzle's staff may be too busy with the holiday buying traffic and may not have enough time to approve new products. 

[Gabbie2004]

Here's what I have done when so many Captcha's occur for no reason.  I sign out of everything and clear all my cache.  That seems to alleviate the problem for a while.

What I also have found is that it is not strictly a Zazzle issue.  This has happened to me while posting Etsy products....and, when just searching on Google Chrome. It appears to be a Google Chrome issue.  I have poste don their forums about it, and a lot of users are complaining.  The Captcha has to be broken.  Of course it would be nice for Google to put out a statement on their landing page.  

[WBartworks]

Aha!  So Google Chrome may be the problem.  That means some customers who are interested in buying from Zazzle while using Google Chrome, may also have to battle with Captchas. Not good!  

[Cat]

Don't know if this means anything, but I use Microsoft Edge and almost NEVER get the Captcha requests. Might just be a coincidence though.

[WBartworks]

I am getting more Captchas now than during Christmas time.  Someone suggested signing out and clearing my cache which I did but it didn't help.  Today I have tried several times and can't get into my account.
I guess Zazzle doesn't want me to add new products. So glad I don't have to rely on Zazzle for a living!

[nyclosangeles]

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, 
HEAR YOUR CREATORS ON THIS PLATFORM!!!

THE CAPTCHA PLUS IMAGE VERIFICATION NEEDS TO BE RESOLVED A.S.A.P.
REWORK IT, UNDO IT, REDO IT. 
OUR WORK IS VALUABLE TO YOU, AS YOU SAY.
PLEASE TAKE SERIOUSLY A SWIFT RESOLUTION TO THIS ISSUE!!!!

[nyclosangeles]

Hello. 
I'm writing AGAIN, despite the WONDERFUL things the "Z" team is accomplishing (smiles)
I'm still being HINDERED by the CAPTCHA.  I will be posting EFFORTLESSLY until this issue has been FULLY resolved, not just for MY personal behalf, but on the behalf of ALL CREATORS!!!

I know "Z" team has made some WONDERFUL and REMARKABLE upgrades & POSITIVE changes for creators, so I do not want to FORGET to mention the GOOD.

Please also consider REMOVING the GRADIENT OVERLAY on our STORE BANNERS.
Blessings To All!!!

[nyclosangeles]

WRITING AGAIN .  
ZAZZLE, YOU MUST ADDRESS THIS ISSUE.
SILENCE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN WORDS!!!
HELP!!! YOUR DESIGNERS ARE DROWINING HERE!!!

[spje]

This Captcha thing is a total nightmare. Why must I solve 10 puzzles per image?

The time I'm wasting on this Captcha torture thing I could be uploading images to your competition or creating new content for them.

Fine Art America and Redbubble just to mention two don't have this ridiculous requirement and they actually sell. Should I forget Zazzle once again to focus on actually selling sites who are friendly to contributors?

Not only Zazzle is by far the most complicated site to post anything now I'm bombarded with captcha. How long must I prove I'm not a robot to post a single product?

[ljlehmann]

I am trying to unsubscribe and the malfunctioning Recaptcha won’t let me (4/38/23). Just keeps spinning and won’t provide any images

[AltherasArt]

Also das Problem scheint ja schon wirklich über Monate zu gehen. Es ist mehr als Zeitaufwendig jedes Mal dieses Recaptcha zu bedienen. In der Zeit wo ich teilweise für einen Artikel 10 mal schlecht erstellte Captchas bestätigen (auswählen) muss, könnte ich 10 Artikel einstellen. Das passiert mir sonst bei keinem einzigen Anbieter. Zudem sollte Zazzle mal gucken wie recaptcha das mit den Audio-Bestätigen handhabt.. Das was dort gesagt wird kann man nicht verstehen bzw. besteht aus mehreren Worten die man einfach nicht verstehen kann. Ich mag Zazzle wirklich und möchte viele Designs anbieten, aber wenn das so weiter geht muss ich gucken welcher Anbieter meine nächste Wahl ist. 

[DBCartoons]

Ich habe herrausgefunden, dass das Recaptcha nicht so oft erscheint, when ich zuerst auf eine Productseite klicke, und dann auch jedesmal auf eine andere. Versuchs mal!  Ich hoffe es klappt auch bei dir so!

[AllisAnn]

It's happing to me over and over and over. I don't know if I should keep trying or give up.

[DBCartoons]

Have you tried clicking on one of your products before signing in?  It has to be a different product each time you sign in, though.  The Recaptcha may still show up but you usually only have to go through one screen.

[De]

This problem crops up every year as we get closer to the holidays. 

[one-bad-meme]

Happening to me as well. It's really bad. It's been 2 days and I can do about 5 designs before I get a CAPTCHA that's 5 tests in a row, with images loading suuuuuper slow. I'm on firefox. If I wait a couple hours the CAPTCHA disappears but only for about 5 designs. It's bad. Please fix - I wouldn't be so annoyed at the CAPTCHAs if it didn't slow them down and require more and more tests to verify...!

[lastzebra]

i get the captchas + the "press and hold" and it's literally not allowing me to be on the website....as in, not even as a viewer/customer...let alone an artist/uploader...I think I'll go back to mainly redbubble, which breaks my heart