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Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

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Re: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

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Post by anon4 »

beedogs wrote: post #130
Alupis wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've solved a lot of captcha's in my time, and really have never experienced the trouble the author is detailing. Not only am I relieved when I see a reCaptcha since they are some of the easiest and most forgiving challenges, but I don't recall ever having repeated bad/unsolvable challenges presented on the same page. Sure, maybe sometimes you get a weird one and fail it. But typically the next challenge is easy to p…

> Captcha's are not going anywhere anytime soon. Which is truly unfortunate, as they're a fucking abomination, an embarrassment to the IT industry in general. Try solving these actual examples: https://i.groupme.com/311x122.png.48e978e0def70131a42422000b... https://i.groupme.com/495x276.png.4da125f0def70131a42422000b...

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I don't quite see why people assume recaptchas are real words, they haven't been for a really long time. The control is always a made-up word and almost always solvable. If you can't solve the other one, enter whatever.

Re: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

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Post by nyrina »

hueving wrote: post #155
_ofdw wrote: post #127

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Some 4channers tried that already. You can guess which 6-letter epithet for black people they tried to use.

>You can guess which 6-letter epithet for black people they tried to use. 'Blacks'

Hint: It starts with "N" and ends in "igger"

Re: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

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Post by anon4 »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #123
sp332 wrote: post #3

The squished-up word is the control word, and the straight one is the unknown one. You only need to get the wavy word right and just guess at all the cut-off examples.

http://alicious.com/wp-content/google-captcha7.png - which is the control?

That one doesn't even have any kanji, come on.

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Re: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

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Post by DanBC »

Pinckney wrote: post #108

The problem isn't captchas, but users not understanding how to interact with them. So what if a few are bad? Hammer out best guesses, fast as you can, until you're successful. It's not as if you're graded on accuracy. There is no reason to ever resort to the refresh button, Out of curiosity, I went and opened the demo page ( https://www.google.com/recaptcha/demo/ajax ) in a new incognito window and timed myself. I ca…

> Captchas are only a problem if you compulsively refresh in hopes of getting something clear.

You're ignoring people with visual impairment or cognitive impairments.

Re: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

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Post by anon4 »

kroger wrote: post #29
gildas wrote: post #15

Here's the one I got on linkedin recently https://twitter.com/check_ca/status/480784849260019712

I got one in Hebrew once: http://twitpic.com/8u8un4

OP's is obviously

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Re: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

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Post by Ntrails »

_ofdw wrote: post #127
ademarre wrote: post #77

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If enough people colluded to use the same unknown word, say "foobar", then couldn't they train recaptcha to believe that is the true value of the word? If I understand recaptcha correctly, and assuming they don't detect collusion well, then eventually the known word pool would get poisoned with a surplus of foobars.

Some 4channers tried that already. You can guess which 6-letter epithet for black people they tried to use.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: "the internet".

Re: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

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Post by prof_hobart »

vitd wrote: post #103
Alupis wrote: post #58

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I've solved a lot of captcha's in my time, and really have never experienced the trouble the author is detailing. Not only am I relieved when I see a reCaptcha since they are some of the easiest and most forgiving challenges, but I don't recall ever having repeated bad/unsolvable challenges presented on the same page. Sure, maybe sometimes you get a weird one and fail it. But typically the next challenge is easy to p…

>Besides this -- the article makes no attempt to offer a better solution. That's completely irrelevant. Criticism is not about solving the problem. It's about pointing out that the current solution is inadequate. Most movie critics never wrote, directed, or acted in movies. It doesn't invalidate their criticism. In fact, your criticism of the other poster's criticism doesn't offer a better solution than criticism eit…

Absolutely.

I hate with a passion the attitude of "Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions". Sure, if you've got a solution as well, that's great. But I'd much rather know there's a problem that you don't have a solution to than be completely ignorant of it.

Re: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

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Post by lmm »

sumedh wrote: post #157
Larrikin wrote: post #129

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It was one thing when they were digitizing books. I refuse to help them improve Google Maps. I have never correctly entered in a map number. As long as you're only off by one digit they are accepting

> I refuse to help them improve Google Maps. I have never correctly entered in a map number. So why don't you stop using Google products if you hate it so much?

I do, but sites still use captchas that give my work to google.
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