Do we have any alternatives against spam then? micro crypto payments?
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)
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Absolutely, they've produced something fairly consistent making it easy for bots, yet by design made it harder for humans to see (small, image noise), and solve (10 consecutive, short time limit, no user feedback).
I recognize that by looking at just the screengrab it's an extremely simple concept to solve, it's just that at every implementation turn they made the worst choices, and it just infuriates me.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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#145Google'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.
Yup, exactly. My thoughts on CAPTCHAs expressed well by https://xkcd.com/1897/ https://xkcd.com/2228/.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
It often happens with things designed and made in the USA. It is assumed that the terminology or customs of the USA apply to the rest of the world, when it's often not the case. For example, their bizarre date system. Widespread use of state abbreviations and timezone abbreviations that are only known in the USA. "Zip code" on forms for customers in New Zealand or India or France.
Zip Codes are used "more or less worldwide" and usually have a direct translation so that's not so much of an issue But yeah how the f someone though MM/DD/YY was a god date format and they kept using this monstrosity still baffles me Edit: translating the expression "Zip Code" to the equivalent in other countries is a non-issue (be it postal codes, etc). It's a code used by the post. No mystery there. Of course, the…
As another poster pointed out, elsewhere "postal code" is usually used. The format differs. In some places it might be 4121, somewhere else it might be SW1A 1AA. In the ROI, there are no post codes.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#147Captchas have gone mad. The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese, and subsequently locked out of my account. Actually before I got locked out, I thought I would stand more chance with the alternative for the visually impaired. It jumped straight in to a fuzzy voice reading 20+ numbers at a rate of more than 1 per second. I was already behind o…
maybe the algorithm wants to detect if you are as slow as a human would be solving those and you failed that ;D
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#148Google'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…
Wow what the hell is that. Thank god I've never had to see that. It's better to load a broken image and ask to enter the numbers (that has happened to me though).
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#149not 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.
That's the point. They were never intended to objectively assess intelligence. They were designed to reinforce the dominant culture.
Just like Google's tests do now.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#150Earlier 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?
Imagus, Bypass Paywalls, and Tampermonkey.