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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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Post by grishka »

rndgermandude wrote: post #61
krtkush wrote: post #10

Earlier 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.

Zebrastreifen ("zebra stripes") is the German colloquial name. You will hardly find anybody (at least in my parts) calling them the proper official "Fußgängerüberweg" (pedestrian overpath/pedestrian crossing). Even most police will call them Zebrastreifen except sometimes when writing reports or in court. I failed a few recaptchas like that too, tho not due to language barrier, but because I didn't pick some things t…

Зебра (zebra) in Russian too, especially if you're referring to the road markings themselves.

I find recaptchas downright humiliating. I think twice before completing one — is whatever it grants access to worth it?

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Post by ljm »

canofbars wrote: post #15

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.

It's an argument against US cultural imperialism using a more benign example (US-centric captchas) than the politically charged ones we tend to see cropping up a lot.

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

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Post by grishka »

ChrisRR wrote: post #79
sabret00the wrote: post #24

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.

Anything you do on google is training their AI for free. Do you think they're offering you free email out of the kindness of their hearts?

Don't they sell ads in the web UI like many other free email providers do?

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

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Post by grishka »

aloisdg wrote: post #109
zeepzeep wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let Googles AI solve Googles CAPTCHAs for you! "Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans" is one of my top 3 browser extensions.

So we have "Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans", "uBlock Origin" and what is the last one?

SponsorBlock?

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

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Post by himinlomax »

philshem wrote: post #69

not trying to stir up a shitstorm, but since this article mentions IQ tests - "what's a nickel?"... Check out the history (1971) of Larry P. and California's use of IQ testing in schools. > As a group, African Americans across the country scored lower on IQ tests. The lawsuit alleged that was because the tests were biased toward Eurocentric culture. Questions like, ”Who wrote Romeo and Juliet,” they argued, didn’t as…

Doesn't sound like IQ tests at all.

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Post by globular-toast »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #28
wiredfool wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I like the Pegasus crossing. It has an even higher button that can be used by horse riders without dismounting.

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

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Post by proto-n »

croon wrote: post #98
sabret00the wrote: post #24

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.

I absolutely don't aim to defend Googles captcha here, but the other day I was setting up an Outlook account for my son, and I ran into Arkose Labs bot detection, and I actually got heatedly angry, which is extremely rare for me. I wanted to punch anyone related to that abomination. Upon researching it seems to be used by the Epic launcher and Roblox (among others), which might explain why I've never encountered it b…

Adding insult to injury, it seems pretty easy to write a quick image filter + path finding algo to solve these... as apparently all the walls have solid borders, while none of the walkable paths have them. So a targeted bot should have a much easier time solving these than a human.

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

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Post by moooo99 »

nbevans wrote: post #49
sabret00the wrote: post #24

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.

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.

They do not ask the same questions since the beginning. At first, CAPCTHA has been used to make old books digitally accessible, which meant that you solved those potato quality scans of old books. When bots became advanced enough, reCAPTCHA was used to improve Google Maps by reading house numbers on poor quality cropped street view images.

Then the zeroCAPTCHA became a thing, which turned out to be even more annoying than others if you slightly cared about your privacy (meaning you at least installed an abblocken) and faced those multi-stages challenges. By looking at those challenges I think it is pretty obvious what CAPTCHA is used for nowadays, for training a recognition model for a self driving vehicle.

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

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Post by lurtbancaster »

Don't get me started on how infuriating Google's ReCaptchas are on Tor Browser.

Buster captcha solver fails immediately. And when you do actually manually solve the captcha correctly, sometimes Google still thinks you're a robot.

And sometimes it asks me to select all "bicycles" in the images and there are NO GODDAMN BICYCLES in any of the images whatsover. So I hit Skip and eventually google thinks I'm a robot.

Everybody please either switch to hcaptcha or..., although I've not seen a website use this yet, upgrade to ReCaptcha v3 maybe?

I read somewhere that ReCaptcha v3 is far less annoying than v2? Is that true?

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