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

Post by ancarda » Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 9:11 AM UTC

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Those really grainy images, they always seemed like they had to have noise added on purpose? It was like really badly processed film grain, but if the images were enlargements then wouldn't they be pixelated? Stuff you get now often requires cultural information, like "sidewalk" isn't a cross-cultural name, I'd guess almost everyone knows it, but meh. What classes as a store, is a lawyers office a store? Also, I seem…

Remember this belongs to Google https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661B2/en

    Current Assignee: Juniper Networks Inc

Post by welly » Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 9:23 AM UTC

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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…

My experience with Quora has been that more often than not the older the answer, the better it is. I find that answers in history, are often better than in tech. It always seems like the community that initially built Quora, stopped building it further several years ago and now it's floating out in space Wile E. Coyote style.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 9:31 AM UTC

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The fire hydrant one always annoyed me - in many countries stand-up fire hydrants are nonexistent or at least look very different. I guess they're banking on people having seen enough American movies/TV shows?

It's not like the word 'fire hydrant' exists in those countries either, so some kind of knowledge/learning/look-up is involved anyway, no?

Post by jplayer01 » Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 9:36 AM UTC

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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…

Post by tomatocracy » Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 9:37 AM UTC

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Because Google can extract value from captchas, it makes world-class captchas and bot detection AI available to every webmaster for free. I don't know what that level of service would otherwise cost, but it almost certainly wouldn't be affordable for low-traffic blogs and the like, which would end up vulnerable using weaker captchas or trying to roll their own. Everywhere else the cost would just get passed on to use…

It's the same with email for example. I've helped a friend roll out his own server because he doesn't want Google reading his emails. Fair enough, but you won't get Google's spam filter or availability either, which your privacy was paying for.