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CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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And in India, they are commonly refereed to as "Zebra Crossing". No one refers to them as cross-walks and most have no idea about that term.

Same in the UK and most commonwealth countries I think

There are pelicans too. Because pelicans have bright yellow flashing balls and ...

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Anyone with a half functioning brain can figure out which ones are the taxis. Taxis are not yellow in my country and I would have no issue picking those out. They have the very distinctive sign on the roof that no normal car has. Not even OP was confused by this, they are just complaining on the behalf of some theoretical person who might get confused.

This is a kind of "Western centric" view. In other parts of the world, a van/"minibus" is often used as a taxi.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Google's CAPTCHA is a cancer of the internet. We're all training their AI without any renumeration. I genuinely hope that some government figures out how to sue them. I've sat down for minutes, repeating CAPTCHAs over and over again, just to log in to an account or download something.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Anyone with a half functioning brain can figure out which ones are the taxis. Taxis are not yellow in my country and I would have no issue picking those out. They have the very distinctive sign on the roof that no normal car has. Not even OP was confused by this, they are just complaining on the behalf of some theoretical person who might get confused.

> on the behalf of some theoretical person who might get confused

A theoretical person that also wouldn't get shown another captcha as a follow-up. I constantly fail captchas on some technicalities (or haste), and have never managed to fail so many to be flagged as a bot and be denied to a website.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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CAPTCHAs don't work.

At least for humans. It's fairly easy to write a script with current technology even for an average "hacker" to solve them. But on the other hand it's extremely hard, nearly impossible for a person with special needs to complete them. Even for average person solving some of CAPTCHAs is a hassle.

Most of the popular CAPTCHAs services are "robot-friendly" and providers don't care who solves them, they just need data, they don't need to prove you're human.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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What the hell is a chimney

A ventilation structure primarily for dispersing smoke from a fire or furnace. I think you call it a "smoke stack" in the USA.

Thank you for this. I've been pressing skip on the small vertical pipes as a chimney to me is a made of brick. Curse being born in Britain!

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same in the UK and most commonwealth countries I think

There are pelicans too. Because pelicans have bright yellow flashing balls and ...

My favourite is the Toucan crossing. They are a lot wider, with two sets of buttons at pedestrian height, and a cyclist height. Named as such because "two (types of road user) can" cross it.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Anyone with a half functioning brain can figure out which ones are the taxis. Taxis are not yellow in my country and I would have no issue picking those out. They have the very distinctive sign on the roof that no normal car has. Not even OP was confused by this, they are just complaining on the behalf of some theoretical person who might get confused.

This is a kind of "Western centric" view. In other parts of the world, a van/"minibus" is often used as a taxi.

I would have no problems identifying a minibus either. They typically have writing / phone number on the side and something on the roof. The google captcha is usually fairly permissive with mistakes and will show you a different question if you fail the first.

I'd like to see someone actually show an example of a captcha they were incapable of solving.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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CAPTCHAs don't work. At least for humans. It's fairly easy to write a script with current technology even for an average "hacker" to solve them. But on the other hand it's extremely hard, nearly impossible for a person with special needs to complete them. Even for average person solving some of CAPTCHAs is a hassle. Most of the popular CAPTCHAs services are "robot-friendly" and providers don't care who solves them, t…

Oh is Google captcha etc solvable via robot?
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