To add some balance, they should include "identify all the roundabouts" so that folk from the USA are equally disadvantaged.
For Americans - "identify cyclist driving through the downtown"
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)
#42I deliberately give some wrong answers to CAPTCHA questions. A lot of the times, it is accepted.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#43Google'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.
They provide a service to the website owner in exchange
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#44Google'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.
Let Googles AI solve Googles CAPTCHAs for you!
"Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans" is one of my top 3 browser extensions.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#45Anyone 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.
> They have the very distinctive sign on the roof that no normal car has.
The bottom left does not have roof visible. Nor does top left for that matter, which could theoretically be taxi van.
I fail these captchas often enough for them to be annoying, but I assumed they are simply buggy.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#46Anyone 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.
I genuinely don't know if the yellow car shown on one of these images from windows down is a taxi.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/taxi-min...
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There are no Zebras in Indian subcontinent; we accepted Anglo term. Cross-Walk(even Pedestrian) is a better term than Zebra-Crossing; for kids though, Zebra helps. Edit: English were in world over making colonies across Afro-Asian countries. https://www.thehindu.com/in-school/sh-science/The-zebra-in-o... Has anyone seen a Zebra cross a zebra-crossing? Only happens in England.
No zebras in the UK, either
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#48I hate captchas with a passion so I'll add another anecdote to the mix:
I'm currently staying in SEA and I love gaming cafe culture here. The only problem is that every time I go to one it takes me good 20 minutes to solve all of the captchas to connect to discord, spotify etc. before I can actually enjoy the experience. So often when I only have 2 hours to spare I really don't feel like spending 15% of that time doing slave labour for google for free instead of enjoying the social gaming experience I went there for.
Sure the cafe could be setup better with more IP addresses or something, it's a small niche scenario and there are probably some hacks around it but it shouldn't be this way - it's just so disgusting how the web got hijacked by this nasty invasion.
Unfortunately minority affected don't have big enough voice in this to bring any change.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#49Google'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.
But Google CAPTCHA has been asking the same questions now pretty much since its inception. Are we really still training it? Or is it just running on auto-pilot at this point? I'm guessing it's likely the latter.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#50Earlier 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 ...
No the flashing balls go with zebra crossings, pelicans use actual traffic lights.