Why Captchas have gotten so difficult

Post by beatgammit » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 3:11 PM UTC

dreamcompiler wrote: post #88

outime wrote: post #24

Google reCAPTCHA is the absolute worst. It makes me solve several puzzles very often, usually when I use a mobile network and I’m not logged in with any Google account. It’s so frustrating that most of the times I find a reCAPTCHA I give up before trying and just go elsewhere e.g. when a site uses reCAPTCHA for sign up or after the first failed login, I’ll most likely skip if I don’t absolutely need to access such we…

I can't use Google search directly any more without being presented with a never-ending series of these things. Thus I use DuckDuckGo, and if it returns inadequate results I rerun it with "!g" at the end which sends it to Google. That seems to work without CAPTCHAs.

Post by SpelingBeeChamp » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 4:24 PM UTC

fxfan wrote: post #178

outime wrote: post #24

Google reCAPTCHA is the absolute worst. It makes me solve several puzzles very often, usually when I use a mobile network and I’m not logged in with any Google account. It’s so frustrating that most of the times I find a reCAPTCHA I give up before trying and just go elsewhere e.g. when a site uses reCAPTCHA for sign up or after the first failed login, I’ll most likely skip if I don’t absolutely need to access such we…

its because google no longer just tests if you are a human- they also train their model- try this- and I've tried it successfully far too many times- Enter your first captcha wrong and then half the times, on the second one it won't say you did first wrong. (it's because first was a learning set). do the second one right and then you're good. I deliberately mark the exact opposite of right boxes in the first captcha…

Post by novaleaf » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 4:42 PM UTC

outime wrote: post #24

Google reCAPTCHA is the absolute worst. It makes me solve several puzzles very often, usually when I use a mobile network and I’m not logged in with any Google account. It’s so frustrating that most of the times I find a reCAPTCHA I give up before trying and just go elsewhere e.g. when a site uses reCAPTCHA for sign up or after the first failed login, I’ll most likely skip if I don’t absolutely need to access such we…

Post by nacs » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 9:07 PM UTC

beatgammit wrote: post #201

dreamcompiler wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't use Google search directly any more without being presented with a never-ending series of these things. Thus I use DuckDuckGo, and if it returns inadequate results I rerun it with "!g" at the end which sends it to Google. That seems to work without CAPTCHAs.

Or use !sp to get StartPage results, which is basically anonymized Google results.

Post by icebraining » Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 12:25 AM UTC

unclebucknasty wrote: post #206

SpelingBeeChamp wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

reCAPTCHA helps Google to digitize books that are too illegible to be OCR'd. Do you appreciate Google Books? It's not as bad as you're making it out to be.

No, I don't enjoy Google Books, but that's really not the point. If that's what I'm helping you do then tell me that and let me opt-in. Maybe I want to contribute. But, don't instead throw up a road-block to the service I'm actually trying to consume, under the guise of providing that service, then double my required effort to help you provide some other service. It's actually implemented as a dark pattern. If you wa…