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Originally Posted by Moon Raker
As other posters on this thread have already pointed out - FileJoker sucks! And today it seems to have stopped working entirely for free users - the countdown starts OK but then just freezes at "please wait 'n' seconds". I tried several times on different files but I can't get any file to download.
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That's a cute little feature of theirs to annoy you. There is, in fact, a workaround that they have provided: when it pauses, you click the "Download now" button below the countdown, ignore the scolding that you gotta pay for a premium account, and the countdown continues. I've seen that happen occasionally at some small number of seconds to go, and it happens very frequently at 2 seconds.
Another sleazy thing they've been doing recently (at least I don't remember this happening until recently) is to put a lot of cycle-gobbling spin-loops in their javascript for the captcha, or to tell the captcha provider to do that if it's 3rd-party. It used to take half of forever to get through the Filechoker captcha successfully, assuming that it was possible in the first place, and now it takes all of forever, so that the only reasonable thing to do is to chuck it and say "To hell widdit" and find the file that you're after somewhere else if possible. And, of course, to try to persuade uploaders everywhere not to use that sleazy outfit any more.
It does seem that every captcha provider has an option selectable by the web server that invokes it to "Annoy the poor user as much as possible." It's a lot like the customer databases of AT&T and all the Baby Bells and their corporate descendants, for decades now: there's obviously a boolean field in the customer record, settable per-customer by any telco employee and looked at by all call-center operators seeing that record, that says "Make as much trouble as possible for this customer, and give him or her a runaround."