Submitted 3 days ago by lunatique@lemmy.ml to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
When you put it in correctly over and over but the bot checking it can’t realize it’s correct ironically. Also CAPTCHAs are getting worst in frequency and complexity. It’s not complex because it’s advance, it’s complex because they blur, distort, and skew the holy life out of the text or image so you can barely even tell what it is anymore.
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart but they use bots to see if you are/aren’t a bot. Infuriating.
I get captchas on a lot of websites when I use a VPN. On the VPN, it’s impossible to solve the captcha, it just keeps repeating. The only way to pass the captcha is to turn off the VPN.
I’m using a lot of archive sites lately.
If you get annoyed at captchas, try this game: neal.fun/not-a-robot/
What do you mean someone is checking the results? They just compare your answer to others. You can even get things wrong, like missing a crosswalk, if others did the same mistake. I never spend any amount of time on these and click as fast as I can. It usually works.
Other websites exist. If you know you know. You probably don’t visit the sites that have implemented the annoying and aggravated ones
That’s a strange response. Why not show some examples rather than being so vague?
Reportedly, this training of bots is a thing of the past. Google used to do this, make people put in the street numbers from Street View or blurred words from book scans. But from what I read this isn’t really necessary any more, AI and computer vision got better and what we see these days is just wasted effort, it doesn’t contribute to anything except tell if you’re able to solve the challenge. I wonder why they still do all the zebra crossings and motorcycles and fire hydrants, though.
I’m impressed by Facebook’s new method. AI generated images of 4 stacks of rocks are generated, and you have to choose the image containing a stack with the specified number of rocks. Much better than deciding whether the section of image containing a couple mm of handlebar counts as a square with a motorcycle
I absolutely cannot with these. If it asks me about motorcycles I skip or refresh until it gives me something else
Isn’t this the whole reason why proof of work captchas are being developed?
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 3 days ago
I believe sometimes they fail no matter what because of a condition on your end.
I’ve encountered this behavior when I’m connected to a VPN or on Tor or sometimes because I’m running Linux. I think they will sometimes fail no matter what under these circumstances because the website is too lazy to actually put some effort in additional steps to vetting you.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, if they fail twice in a row when I know I completed them correctly, I don’t bother a third time.
Liome@pawb.social 3 days ago
Most of the time I don’t bother at all if it’s anything more than “click the checkbox”.
I guess I’m a bot, eh?
django@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I once recorded myself solving captchas for several minutes, as it just kept asking for more. I finally accepted, that I am, apparently, a robot.