You can beat it by rapidly clicking left to right and back. Maybe add a rate of fire and change the vertical position of the enemies.
Doom Captcha (2021)
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Re: Doom Captcha (2021)
#132Absolutely love it. Unusual captcha's are great. Reminded me of this one: http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
You don't actually need much, for a form I used to get spam in I just added a "write 42 here" so anyone who actually cares to read would be able to fill it. spam fell to 0. (for a site with a slightly higher profile this wouldn't be enough, but for a minor corner of the internet with no ill intent actually aimed at it that turned out to be enough to block the fuzzing "fill all the forms" spam)
As contrasting experience, I did that (a simple math problem) on our contact form and it did NOT drop spam to zero; our spammers were too smart for that. Even an actual reCAPTCHA didn't completely eliminate it (although it mostly did, enough that it's fine for us).
Re: Doom Captcha (2021)
#133Unfortunately, just this week someone fine-tuned the Mistral-7B LLM to play DOOM :P https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813174
Reminded me of "Growing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM?"
Re: Doom Captcha (2021)
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even better: [Start with sound] [Start without sound]
100% this. Buttons represent verbs.
Button may be a verb, but it doesn't have to. Generally, buttons represent one of three things:
1. an action – this is usually a verb in the imperative mood (e.g. Reply, Save, Add to basket)
2. a status – those omit the verb and only specify the new state of an object, which might be a lot of things, like a noun (Spam), an adjective (Favourite) or maybe an adverb (In progress, Later)
3. a navigation item – on the Web, this is better represented as a link, so let's not go into this here
I would argue that "with/without sound" is a clear example of a status here.
Re: Doom Captcha (2021)
#135Amazing. I wish it was claimed to be secure!
I'm not sure it's possible to make secure. To render the positions of the enemies, the browser receives 4 coords. To submit the capcha, the browser submits 4 coords – the same ones it received. Perhaps you could track the variance between the exact position and the position the user selected, as well as timing. But would it be enough?
I think it's safe enough for many cases. Amazing concept to have little classic games as Captcha.
Re: Doom Captcha (2021)
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
100% this. Buttons represent verbs.
Button may be a verb, but it doesn't have to. Generally, buttons represent one of three things: 1. an action – this is usually a verb in the imperative mood (e.g. Reply, Save, Add to basket) 2. a status – those omit the verb and only specify the new state of an object, which might be a lot of things, like a noun (Spam), an adjective (Favourite) or maybe an adverb (In progress, Later) 3. a navigation item – on the Web…
It's still way clearer to not omit the verb. "Report spam" vs just "Spam".
Also links are not buttons. There's nothing to get into here. It's straight up wrong from every perspective to think of a link as a button even from an accessibility standpoint.