Audio captchas are pretty hard to solve for me personally, much harder than even almost unreadable Captchas. But maybe that's just me. Still can't imagine a bot solving the audio captchas I've heard though. Edit: Just listen to it: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/demo/
That is awful. In most of the triplets, the middle sound is completely drowned out by the noise
Wow yes I agree first time I hear reCAPTCHA. I am seriously wondering whether ANYBODY is able to solve this. I know it was broken before but now it seems reCaptchaing something means straight up denying it to visually impaired people.
I still loathe reCAPTCHA more than any other captcha out there. I've given up hopes of logging in on many occasions simply because of it. Looks like it's designed for not to be deciphered either by humans or computers.
And at the same time, most captcha solving services I've tried break recaptcha with no problem! And they aren't even expensive. Now, I dunno if they use fancy ML techniques or sweatshops with little African children receiving electroshocks when they get one wrong, but they do work to the point that nowadays captchas only repel legit users and very badly engineered spam bots, the good bots are already ahead of the gam…
I think all CAPTCHA solving "services" that offer reCAPTCHA solving rely on human work, and thus work on a delay (which obviously is just a minor inconvenience for any mass spamming operation). Here's a pretty nice article about it.[1] ReCAPTCHA itself remains unbroken to date (and it sure has gotten harder over the years too).
I still loathe reCAPTCHA more than any other captcha out there. I've given up hopes of logging in on many occasions simply because of it. Looks like it's designed for not to be deciphered either by humans or computers.
Fun tip: reCAPTCHA is actually two things, the "re" and the "CAPTCHA". In other words, one half is about testing that you're not a human, while the other half is a legitimately unknown word from a source of failed optical character recognition. You actually don't have to get the latter one anything close to right; and I think you're given the option of at least one typo in the actual CAPTCHA test. So when a CAPTCHA l…
Random words from books? What a herecy! Clearly they come from the Lord Inglip.
I still loathe reCAPTCHA more than any other captcha out there. I've given up hopes of logging in on many occasions simply because of it. Looks like it's designed for not to be deciphered either by humans or computers.
I totally agree, see this recaptcha which is upside down, how are we supposed to read it http://postimg.org/image/7xgovvhij/
I've had ones in this form a couple of time, where the image is clearly from a photo of someone's house number.
Not sure if they are checking house number positions from google street view with it to.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2461478/Images/captcha.jpg
I still loathe reCAPTCHA more than any other captcha out there. I've given up hopes of logging in on many occasions simply because of it. Looks like it's designed for not to be deciphered either by humans or computers.
And at the same time, most captcha solving services I've tried break recaptcha with no problem! And they aren't even expensive. Now, I dunno if they use fancy ML techniques or sweatshops with little African children receiving electroshocks when they get one wrong, but they do work to the point that nowadays captchas only repel legit users and very badly engineered spam bots, the good bots are already ahead of the gam…
There are some services like "Captcha Brotherhood" were you get points for solving captchas of other users, which you then can use to let other users solve your captchas.
Hey D&B developer here. I'm excited to see so much interest in my work. If the captcha is correct we categorize it as a bot and don't let it through. If the captcha is incorrect then it must be a human and we let them through. Good news: we're hiring! We have day long meetings Mondays and Wednesdays, but other than that it's great.
I don't really understand this approach. Won't the false positive rate be close to 100%? Humans are going to get the captcha right every time. If it's supposed to be a honeypot system, the input should be hidden from human users to avoid that problem.
The last "I" and "I" are swapped with CSS. Bots don't realize this, but humans do.
It's not elegant at all - it makes the user do extra work at signup. Wasn't there an interesting blog post on HN about 5 years ago that showed that each additional field you add to the registration form cuts sign-ups in half? The better solution is to send an e-mail with a confirmation link upon signup. This also protects against deliberately falsified e-mails, and against typing it incorrectly twice, and against fol…
I believe that extra field thing is correct. However I don't think your solution is really great either, by forcing the user to confirm their email before continuing your are interrupting their flow. In some cases when I've had this and the email has been delayed by even a few minutes I haven't bothered coming back. Edit: Sorry I kind of misread your comment, but what I said is half relavent. None of the protections…
Yeah, confirmation e-mails suck from a UX perspective. However, they don't gratuitously suck - they solve the problem they're trying to solve, and often users can tell why they're necessary. Extra form fields suck from a UX perspective and have the added problem of not actually solving the problem they're trying to solve.
It's valid, but it's one of those things that shows they're not a web developer. We don't use or anymore. That's what CSS is for.
FWIW, Google Search still uses tags for byte-saving reasons. Search terms are all bolded, and the page would become significantly heavier if those were or tags instead of . (There's some crazyness where they actually become tags in China and are styled differently, because Chinese typographical conventions avoid bolding characters and instead turn them red for emphasis. I tried to simplify this once and do everything…
As I noted below, and are meant to be typographically-significant elements, so it's not just byte-saving. Google is using and correctly in that case (even if that's just a happy accident).
Fun tip: reCAPTCHA is actually two things, the "re" and the "CAPTCHA". In other words, one half is about testing that you're not a human, while the other half is a legitimately unknown word from a source of failed optical character recognition. You actually don't have to get the latter one anything close to right; and I think you're given the option of at least one typo in the actual CAPTCHA test. So when a CAPTCHA l…
> try doing the possible half and typing in "balls" for the other half That doesn't help with the digitization of books. :)
