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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)
#162Honestly, I'm not that bothered. I think most of these users are high-pain users so dropping them is okay if ultimately it lets the website operator offer a service to me cheaper.
Sure, some are unfairly blocked, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
If you use a browser which blocks fingerprinting, CAPTCHA may fail you 3-4 times even if you give correct answers. CAPTCHA was giving me anger management issues last few weeks until I realized I can just open same URL in another browser and then most of the time it doesn't even ask for CAPTCHA because the fingerprinting is so accurate it knows who I am (or it lets me in after the first round).
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#164The CAPTCHA that makes me sweat all the time: traffic lights. Are they including the poles, or only the housing of the lights?
Stairs too. Do they include the hand rails? If a step ends three pixels into a new square, do I select that square? What about the side face of the steps?
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#165As a blind person with english as not native language, the audio captchas are pure hell. I can't imagine other visually impaired people who don't know english at all and have to deal with a lazy website which dumps them the default english audio captcha if there is audio at all.
There was a CTF a while ago where someone beat Google Captcha by simply inputting the Audio captcha into Google speech recognition. It worked ~80% of the time.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's probably the type of stuff it wants to figure out by throwing it at us
In my country, the Ford F150 truck would be referred to as a car or a "half-truck", while a semi-truck is what would be referred to as a truck. That's a piece of cultural difference that will dirty your training.
It might be called a car or a pickup truck but never just a truck by someone here. While "pickup truck" is an American inherited phrase which has truck in it, they're considered trucks about as much as a catfish is considered a cat.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#168To add some balance, they should include "identify all the roundabouts" so that folk from the USA are equally disadvantaged.
"Identify which of the following windows can tilt and turn."
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#169not 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…
Those aren't anything like the sort of questions involved in IQ tests. IQ tests rarely involve words at all, usually a series of geometric shapes where you're supposed to pick the next one.
Depends on the test. There's been a move away from tests that require cultural or language specific knowledge and which instead rely on "which shape in the sequence comes next" type questions but they have their own set of problems in that they don't capture linguistic ability which is a part of intelligence, and are also useless for blind people. Earlier IQ tests required a lot of culturally specific knowledge, and were often quite up front about it because they considered the possession of such knowledge to be a marker of intelligence. Generally that viewpoint is out of fashion now so test makers try to come up with tests that measure "pure" Intelligence, whatever that means.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#170Can't google show different CAPTCHAs according to the different IP address?
They have Street View photos from most regions and they already set the language of their web apps based on IP, but hey - I learned to recognize an American hydrant from 100 yards (not meters, heh).