Ask HN: Anyone else locked out of zillow.com?
Zillow has this thing where it asks you to hold down your mouse to prove you're a human. Guess they figured it was better than a regular Captcha. But no matter how many times I hold down the mouse button and no matter which browser or device I use, I keep getting the "hold down the mouse to prove you're a human" page. Except for my mobile phone which uses android chrome which just doesn't display anything. The app on my phone is barfing if I'm connected over wi-fi, but works fine over mobile data.
This makes me think Zillow is blocking my IP address. I mean... I could just use Redfin, but Zillow sometimes has a different mix of properties available and I'm always curious what they z-estimate says about my neighborhood.
The hilarious thing is there's no indication they're collecting data about failures, but hopefully they are and if it's happening to a number of people they'll eventually fix it.
I guess my question is... does anyone know anyone over at Zillow? Should I apply for a job there just so I can speak to someone in engineering to see if we could figure out what the problem is?
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