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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 arp242 »

rahidz wrote: post #134
lurtbancaster wrote: post #130

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. Ever…

It seems like Google punishing you for taking actions to increase your privacy, which not-so-coincidentally reduces the data they're able to hoover up from you.

That's just silly; it's well known that Tor nodes are widely abused by spam bots. Google is "punishing" known sources of spam. When I ran a forum many Tor nodes ended up being outright blocked, since there was so much spam coming from them.

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

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Post by thrwyoilarticle »

ChrisRR wrote: post #75
gillesjacobs wrote: post #6

The crosswalks Captcha provides the most difficult cultural discrepancy for me. Some US crosswalks look like European "forbidden for all traffic" road markings. Pretty much the opposite of a crosswalk. I always have to do a double take on those.

There's a captcha for fire hydrants which we don't have in the UK either

We do. They're the graves for H from Steps.

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

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Post by 1f60c »

lurtbancaster wrote: post #130

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. Ever…

> upgrade to ReCaptcha v3 maybe?

Funny you should say that. reCAPTCHA v3 is meant to be invisible, watching the behavior of a user in the background, and then returning a score between 0.0 and 1.0 for the website to do with as they please.

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

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Post by funcDropShadow »

watwut wrote: post #62
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #17

Earlier 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.

To be fair, I have seen non Americans making basically same assumptions. I have even once seen a thread where Easter Europeans who never been in America argued with Americans about meaning of English word and about American culture. It was literally "are you sure you know better then American how Americans would interpret that word/situation in their day to day life" situation.

Are you sure that English is defined by its usage in the United States of America? Or is it defined by the usage in, let's say, in England?

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

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Post by brandonr49 »

renewiltord wrote: post #162

Honestly, 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.

I too am willing to sacrifice others when it benefits me.

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

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Post by zeepzeep »

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?

uMatrix

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

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Post by jasonwatkinspdx »

nottorp wrote: post #228
josephduffy wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree working in a wider range of ambient temperatures would be nice, but they do have a support article stating the temperature should be over 10°C, so I wouldn't say they've not tested it. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201640 Note that the iOS devices work from above 0°C ( https://support.apple.com/en-sg/HT201678 ) so maybe improvements will be brought to laptops too.

> I agree working in a wider range of ambient temperatures would be nice, but they do have a support article stating the temperature should be over 10°C, so I wouldn't say they've not tested it. Yeah, the point is 10 C is sufficient ... for California. Not necessarily for the rest of the world. I'm sure they specify some temperature range, it's just not quite enough. Besides it was left outside for 10 minutes, not ho…

Discharge rate of batteries falls with temperature. 10C is a very common lower limit for high performance lion cells. There's a complex set of tradeoffs vs fundamental physical limits here. It's not at all a case of "aw shucks we forgot places other than CA exist" which is something you're just projecting onto the situation.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

OJFord wrote: post #221
StavrosK wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that what everybody else is talking about too?

I don't think 'crosswalks' require road traffic give way to pedestrians? Don't they just mark where crossing the road is not 'jaywalking'?

Hmm, I thought they did, but now that you mention it I realize I'm not sure. In the UK they do, but "crosswalk" refers to the US one.

Can any US people clarify?

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