Got second hand anxiety the other day seeing someone logging into their fb account (I guess with a chrome private window?) and they had to solve like 3 round of reCAPTCHAs to finally be able to... get into a fb login page over again, do another 3 or so reCAPTCHAs and finally get into their fb. I don't think they were doing them wrong
Stop Using reCAPTCHA – It's Not a Real Captcha
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#12I don't know about hCaptcha, I tried it out when testing stuff for a websites checkout flow (had card testing spam issues), and they are about the most difficult to solve captchas I've ever done. I guess there's a low friction mode only available on the $139/mo plan.
> they are about the most difficult to solve captchas I've ever done Sounds like something a robot would say. Joking aside, I'd rather do a captcha that involves slightly more cognitive effort, rather than get trapped in a reCaptcha loop because I didn't select every last segment of a bicycle.
True, I've been using Turnstile for now and it's nice because it generally doesn't even need the interactive challenge.
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#13It reads like it's written by a person having a stroke in real time. Really weird formatting, punctuation, structure all over the place. Asinine claims.
I hate the messenger despite loosely agreeing with the message, I guess.
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#14No, please do keep using them if you use any requiring puzzles (like hCaptcha) at all. It’s the easiest captcha to solve automatically, with many extensions available.
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#15It reads like it's written by a person having a stroke in real time. Really weird formatting, punctuation, structure all over the place. Asinine claims. I hate the messenger despite loosely agreeing with the message, I guess.
The author is German, so I'll cut them some slack on their English prose. And I think I prefer seeing their actual voice rather than pressing it through an LLM filter.
But I agree the claims are kinda incoherent, and that's unforgivable.
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#16I think Google stopped using such data long time ago. They have been showing hydrants, buses, crosswalks for ages. It's a solved problem to detect them.
Pretty sure it's a small set of images of each type as well. It's probably easier for a dumb heuristics-based bot to beat it than it is for most people.
It's been proven (https://ics.uci.edu/2023/08/10/new-scientist-bots-are-better...). At this point, we should only respond to queries from users who have failed the captcha.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure it's a small set of images of each type as well. It's probably easier for a dumb heuristics-based bot to beat it than it is for most people.
It's been proven ( https://ics.uci.edu/2023/08/10/new-scientist-bots-are-better... ). At this point, we should only respond to queries from users who have failed the captcha.
Right. It says select tiles with cars, bikes or buses and I fail because I recognized one far away. Traffic lights and stairs, if a tile has just a tiny bit of the thing, does that count? I don't think they train on this, they've got their answers and they just want people to feel dumb, I guess.
Re: Stop Using reCAPTCHA – It's Not a Real Captcha
#18I don't know about hCaptcha, I tried it out when testing stuff for a websites checkout flow (had card testing spam issues), and they are about the most difficult to solve captchas I've ever done. I guess there's a low friction mode only available on the $139/mo plan.
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Friendly Captcha, so I'm very biased.
I agree the hCaptcha challenges are probably the most inaccessible of them all once you are not part of the low friction flow any more. Can we really expect grandma to tell the difference between circuit boards and aerial city photography?
In the future feel free to give Friendly Captcha [0] a try, we only have the low friction mode (on any plan). Our free plan should work for hobby projects, and above that our pricing is in line with competitors. We aim to be the most privacy friendly and accessible option (being the only ones with WCAG AA Gold).. and aside from that just being the one that is the most invisible to genuine users, I think our not-getting-in-the-way actually makes us less known..