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Were you using an unusual user agent or a VPN or something?
Twist: he is a robot, and when he sent them a photo, it was a robot photo. Square metal head, lights for eyes, antenna coming out the top. The works.
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That's what ReCaptcha always was... it was originally a known and another unsure text blurb from scanned books/text documents. Now it's street signs etc.
It's actually pretty interesting to see how the captchas have evolved as, presumably, Google decides "OK, we have enough data to consistently identify this thing" and moves on to the next challenge. I recall the modern (non-text) captchas used to be cars pretty much every time. Then, the images started getting grainier as they apparently wanted to improve their recognition in different conditions. Then crosswalks and…
With the possibility of almost uniquely identifying us on the web through fingerprinting... Google, of all companies is in the perfect position to know that my web request was made by me... And therefore I'm not a robot.
You can only conclude that recaptcha is a ml training exercise.
Is there any place where I can find a comprehensive list of countermeasures to stop Google from recording and analyzing all the stuff that the article lists? According to the article: It turns out they record and analyse: - Your computer’s timezone and time - Your IP address and rough location - Your screen size and resolution - What browser you’re using - What plugins you’re using - How long the page took to display…
Turn off javascript, mostly. To hide your ip you need to use a VPN.
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Isn't cloudflare the org that "Doesnt censor under any circumstances", and then turned around and censored white supremacists? Not that I agree with them (I DONT!), but it was a full 180. And also, isn't cloudflare also the one to allow booters and stressers to be online behind CF - and they used stolen CC's to boot? The Tor decisions to screw users over is just the cherry on top. Especially is egregious is when a ca…
Everyone should censor and shun white supremacists. They have no place in modern society. When they shed their noxious views, we can all welcome them back with open arms.
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That's what ReCaptcha always was... it was originally a known and another unsure text blurb from scanned books/text documents. Now it's street signs etc.
Isn't there a good OSS alternative for ReCaptcha?
As a user who's constantly clicking on the crosswalk or storefront images you can't help but to think that you're essentially working for free training Google's machine learning models by providing them with supervised data points.
Yes, especially when they show you about 15 sets of images in a row taking 2 minutes to complete, clearly going beyond demonstrating you're human.
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Not just for Tor. I use Firefox with a few basic extensions (Privacy badger, uBlock, Google Container) yet every time I am presented with having to pick out traffic lights over and over and over again. I usually have about 5 or 6 "challenges" before I give up and use another site. My timezone has not changed, my IP address and rough location has not changed, my screensize has not changed, my broadband speed has not c…
for google, you are the enemy. not even bots. captcha is google master blow against ad blockers. a regular user, who they have all the info, give them dollars per ad impression. You, with your doNotTrack (ha! that was a joke) and privacy addons makes them only cents per ad impressions. you are google's enemy. remember this when you get stuck in captcha hell (and consequently censored from most sites until changing de…
I rarely see the "I am not a robot" box, and hasn't seen image recognition tasks for a long-long time.
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That's what ReCaptcha always was... it was originally a known and another unsure text blurb from scanned books/text documents. Now it's street signs etc.
It's actually pretty interesting to see how the captchas have evolved as, presumably, Google decides "OK, we have enough data to consistently identify this thing" and moves on to the next challenge. I recall the modern (non-text) captchas used to be cars pretty much every time. Then, the images started getting grainier as they apparently wanted to improve their recognition in different conditions. Then crosswalks and…
I'd always assumed that was noise carefully tuned to throw off one machine learning model or another that was being used to beat the captcha, sort of like this: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/2/16597276/google-ai-image-...
I think it might be the same when they switch to other types of objects (like crosswalks or bikes). Someone's model got too good, so they had to change to something else. I also get the impression that they add delays to the tile refresh before they do that.
I suspect Google now uses robots to generate captchas for humans, under the assumption their image recognizers are far better than anyone else's. They already have some very well ones for other products (self driving cars, street view) and lots of street-level city imagery. That would explain why their captchas are so difficult for humans to solve -- they're testing if you see things like their "AI," not like other humans.