This fits the pattern of Google consistently going "oops we broke Firefox" (or otherwise made it worse than Chrome) to the extent it raises suspicion of a deliberate strategy, as described by this former Mozillian: https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871246510264320
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#172The slow animation is the worst. You really want to punch someone responsible in the face. And I never figure out how to solve the traffic light riddle.
I've never understood why they don't just say what you're supposed to select - it it just the lights, or the poles too? What if part only enters a box by a few pixels? Just tell me what you want, dammit!
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#173My company proxy kept triggering endless Google captcha games. I switched to DuckDuckGo.
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#174Google Captcha is a complete mess at this point and I often leave websites that use it if it's not essential to what I am doing
My power company (the sole government-run provider in my area) now has reCAPTCHA on their payment form.
Which was my point from my earlier downvoted comment. The idea that training Google AI is a condition of use is ridiculous. You have to provide free labor to Google as a condition of paying your electric bill. You also have to share your data with Google — even if you decide not to complete the Captcha.
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#175I'm from the UK and often get very American questions. Such as "select all the images with cross-walks". This isn't really a phrase we have over here, so when I first got this I had no idea what I was meant to be looking for in the array of random pictures and actually had to look it up to get past it. If you're going to force me to do a captcha, at least localise the damn questions. Do other non-American's get this…
Another Brit here, and yes this does annoy me a bit.
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#176While relatable, this is just a low effort post more suited for Twitter or Reddit. For a fair comparison OP would need to use clean browser profiles on fresh IPs. Like this it is just fan-service for Google Captcha victims (like me).
I kept looking for the article. Surprised to see such a low-effort post submitted to HN.
Users have the option to flag submissions
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#177I find it incredible that modern reCAPTCHA exists and is legal. Aside from the the obviously concerning censorship that happens if you try to access reCAPTCHA-locked sites over Tor, it is literally forcing internet users to do free labour for Google so that can train their AI for whatever project they're doing. So not only is it a tax on using the internet (paid in seconds to minutes of human existence each time -- I…
You're barking up the wrong tree here. reCAPTCHA is a free service that developers implement. If you don't like that, complain to them. Companies aren't compelled to use Google services - they have no choice because the bot issue is untenable without it.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to the recent Planet Money podcast on Captcha, the upcoming changes will only use the signal of whether or not you have an account, and not any account-based data, since it will be domain based on the website or something. Also, they're doing away with the questionnaire. It works by using a scoring system or something similar since it loads on the pages leading up to form fills. Edit: Source for you disbeli…
You still believe PR fairytales?
And the alternative is believing something else with no evidence. Is that better?
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
The photos or voice still needs to come from from somewhere. The somewhere is google.com. The .com is blocked.
Please see my other reply in this thread: "recaptcha.net" can also be used. Is that blocked in China too? I can't find a clear answer.
I pinged recapture.net and got a 50ms response time. Baidu would give a 20ms response time. That's on WiFi. That leads me to think the server responding to these pings is in certainly in mainland China, I think in Alibaba's IP range, but probably not a CDN. Interesting, thanks.