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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 greenshackle2 »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #431
Number157 wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you can answer the questions, I assume?

These are hard sometimes for me, from UK: What counts as a truck? Is a fire engine a truck, is a 4x4 (like a Landrover), a HGV (ie lorry), a box van? What counts as a bus? Is a coach a bus, a minibus? What counts as a bicycle? Is a pedal-and-pop (a pedal cycle with an engine)? The image shows part of a headset that might be on a bike, is that enough to call it a bike, might be a lightweight motorbike? Is a hovercraft…

I was genuinely stumped by this one:

https://ibb.co/1bjZyxm

Do any of the tiles count? If so, do the tiles that barely have just the edge of a "tire" count? Who knows?

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

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Post by hazeii »

Also the frequency with which they appear, and the number of iterations required to pass appears to have a strong inverse correlation with whether you're signed into Google with Chrome or not (we use a wide range of browsers for testing, all of which get reset to baseline).

In other words, it's much easier to just use Chrome and stay signed into Google.

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

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Post by recursive »

93po wrote: post #545
architect01 wrote: post #535

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but good luck remembering those guessed answers once you need them again to get your account back

I use a password generator for the answers and save them in my password manager. One time I had to read 20 random characters to someone on the phone as a response to my favorite food

So... why not just use your password manager to record the account's actual password, so you don't need to use security questions?

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

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Post by Kwpolska »

__s wrote: post #418
gostsamo wrote: post #12

As 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.

For context, here's a recording of an audio captcha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMPJV9Sj8Yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raFXfU7_fkg

reCAPTCHA’s audio CAPTCHAs (at least in English) are much saner these days, it’s a voice snippet from a YouTube video their AI had issues transcribing.

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

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Post by smsm42 »

dayve wrote: post #247

Being an African born & bred in Nigeria, I particularly find this appalling. Captcha usually asks users to identify fire hydrants, crosswalks & other objects with design patterns that are not common here, in everyday living. There's a big question on whether these approaches work well for onboarding the next billion users to the internet, especially since the demographics are much different from existing internet use…

Fire hydrants is the first thing I've remembered too. This is very much US thing, don't remember ever seeing it in other countries (maybe they exist, but not where I lived) - at least not in the form Google wants them.

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

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Post by smsm42 »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #431
Number157 wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you can answer the questions, I assume?

These are hard sometimes for me, from UK: What counts as a truck? Is a fire engine a truck, is a 4x4 (like a Landrover), a HGV (ie lorry), a box van? What counts as a bus? Is a coach a bus, a minibus? What counts as a bicycle? Is a pedal-and-pop (a pedal cycle with an engine)? The image shows part of a headset that might be on a bike, is that enough to call it a bike, might be a lightweight motorbike? Is a hovercraft…

I live in US (though not born here) and truck and bike ones give me a bit of a pause too. The fact that bike is both a bicycle and a motorcycle doesn't exactly help either. And btw is scooter a bike?

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

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Post by smsm42 »

greenshackle2 wrote: post #591
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are hard sometimes for me, from UK: What counts as a truck? Is a fire engine a truck, is a 4x4 (like a Landrover), a HGV (ie lorry), a box van? What counts as a bus? Is a coach a bus, a minibus? What counts as a bicycle? Is a pedal-and-pop (a pedal cycle with an engine)? The image shows part of a headset that might be on a bike, is that enough to call it a bike, might be a lightweight motorbike? Is a hovercraft…

I was genuinely stumped by this one: https://ibb.co/1bjZyxm Do any of the tiles count? If so, do the tiles that barely have just the edge of a "tire" count? Who knows?

Ceci n'est pas une bicycle.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

throwaway936482 wrote: post #169
artichokes wrote: post #116

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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…

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