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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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>> "...she was right there, in person, in front of the sales person, who wanted her to check a box, with a pen, on real paper, confirming that she was not, in fact, a robot. She claims she isn’t. All robots claim not to be one, so we must be really careful. probably printed app from website and the dealer took it literally

A better question might be "This sentence is false. True or false?"

No.

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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I had roughly the same problem. My facebook career lasted for all of thirty seconds before they decided I was a robot and banned my account. I appealed and they asked me to send a photo. I sent them a photo and they said I was still a robot and there was no further appeal. Very helpful. So my choices from that point are to 1) shame them in the media and hope its an entertaining enough story that people like it or 2)…

> My facebook career Interesting interview process!

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Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Its getting weird when you have to fill that box in with pen and paper Marci Robin was buying a Fiat 500X from a West Palm Beach, Florida dealership, and was in the final stages of signing all the paperwork, when she was presented with a strange but simple question: was she a robot? This wasn’t online or anything, she was right there, in person, in front of the sales person, who wanted her to check a box, with a pen,…

> She claims she isn’t. I wonder if the subtlety of that joke will be lost on future generations one day.

I think the entire story will be lost on some future generation, unless you add to the end: "but perfectly human-like robots didn't even exist back then!"

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

#484
Sometimes I get really angry about that captcha. For example, when I am trying to buy something, having an account on the store with 100+ orders, and still having to play 6 rounds or so of 'find the car' at the speed of the very slow fading images.

So sophisticated and still such a pain in the a for the user.

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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I have received a "suspicious activity" warning on Twitter for any new account I've helped open up over the last year. You can confirm your identity by entering your phone number and receiving a text. I feel like it's more of a cheap ploy to get additional info after your first 25 tweets than it is any bot detection algorithm.

It's not, it's really not. They really do want to verify you're a person. Facebook got busted using that (security) info for marketing purposes, and the reaction was muted; but, within the security community, it was loud and angry. Within a week, they had ceased completely.

Do you happen to know a source for that?

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

#486

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.

I'm now wondering if the fact that I block third-party cookies is the reason I always have to identify cars and store fronts. Maybe I should just avoid sites that use recaptcha.

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

#487

Its getting weird when you have to fill that box in with pen and paper Marci Robin was buying a Fiat 500X from a West Palm Beach, Florida dealership, and was in the final stages of signing all the paperwork, when she was presented with a strange but simple question: was she a robot? This wasn’t online or anything, she was right there, in person, in front of the sales person, who wanted her to check a box, with a pen,…

It made for funny headlines but anyone with a little insight into corporate can guess that they simply printed a form from their computer. Likely from their website. A form normally designed to be used online was sent over paper mail and happened to include online elements like captcha.

If anything you should exclude such html elements from the print page with css.

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Isn't this a typical Quora answer? Full of filler and shitty hard-to-verify details that provide no value to the answer ("the language is encrypted twice", what the hell), and very little effort on answering the actual question (what is the purpose of CAPTCHA). And the community rules try to block people from writing firm "you're full of shit"-like answers, even though every other answer of Quora is full of lies like…

I had my “wow” this place might not be that good experience with Quora yesterday when I was trying to google evaluate AWS workmail. Quite a lot of the “extremely good looking” answers on Quora straight up said that you couldn’t do e-mail in AWS. These were answers from after workmail was a thing by the way. So I started looking at other Quora answers on stuff I wouldn’t normally need an answer for, and it’s frighteni…

Sounds like a form of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

#490

Its getting weird when you have to fill that box in with pen and paper Marci Robin was buying a Fiat 500X from a West Palm Beach, Florida dealership, and was in the final stages of signing all the paperwork, when she was presented with a strange but simple question: was she a robot? This wasn’t online or anything, she was right there, in person, in front of the sales person, who wanted her to check a box, with a pen,…

this reminds me of a cargo cult or something. People following strange rituals they observed others perform for no reason

And that reminds me of the monkey and banana problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_and_banana_problem

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