What do you want from me, Google CAPTCHA

[R. A.]

I swear to god it is inconsistently picky. Take the below for example:



The top right square probably fell into the same camp. By default, I always select every square with any amount of whatever the thing is it wants me to select. But it usually fails me until I do one with no contentious squares. So sometimes I leave those ones, and it still fucking fails me.

Is that the real test? To see if I get so pissed I smash my computer, which a bot could not do?!

 

[EternalShore]

Completely agreed~ :( after doing these for so long, sometimes, I know that the thing it wants me to select is in some square, but I know it's not going to count it and is going to fail me! >_< Also, for traffic lights, do the poles count? For motorcycles and bicycles, do the drivers count? For stairs, do the railings count? I hate Captchas so much! >_< Sometimes, it'll count things as crosswalks where with human eyes, those clearly are markings that are white but not crosswalks! The ones where it gives you 9 images, and you have to click them individually are kinda nice~ That's because there's almost always 3, and then 1 once those images reload~ altho, the images taking 10 seconds to reload can be very frustrating! >_<

 

[Carrot]

It also shows your IP address when they ask you for a CAPTCHA. Not in the image above, but if somebody was streaming, the IP would be shown.

 

[R. A.]

Completely agreed~ :( after doing these for so long, sometimes, I know that the thing it wants me to select is in some square, but I know it's not going to count it and is going to fail me! >_< Also, for traffic lights, do the poles count? For motorcycles and bicycles, do the drivers count? For stairs, do the railings count? I hate Captchas so much! >_< Sometimes, it'll count things as crosswalks where with human eyes, those clearly are markings that are white but not crosswalks! The ones where it gives you 9 images, and you have to click them individually are kinda nice~ That's because there's almost always 3, and then 1 once those images reload~ altho, the images taking 10 seconds to reload can be very frustrating! >_<

for better or worse (apparently worse, usually) i try to be literal; i only select the "lights" for traffic lights, and the actual bike - though sometimes that square is 90% person. interesting about the walks since i do that fir them too, and yeah i much prefer the disappearing/reappearing images. have you tried the sound one? it's fucking ridiculous sometimes how hard it is to understand lolol

It also shows your IP address when they ask you for a CAPTCHA. Not in the image above, but if somebody was streaming, the IP would be shown.

yikes - thank god i usually use a vpn!

 

[Carrot]

Something like this.

 

[EternalShore]

for better or worse (apparently worse, usually) i try to be literal; i only select the "lights" for traffic lights, and the actual bike - though sometimes that square is 90% person. interesting about the walks since i do that fir them too, and yeah i much prefer the disappearing/reappearing images. have you tried the sound one? it's fucking ridiculous sometimes how hard it is to understand lolol

from what I understand, the sound ones don't require you to do the last one correctly thankfully! :3 so when I have done those, I've typed in some pretty bad words that I wouldn't type or say anywhere else! xD altho, they can still be really hard, yes~ >_<

 

[nobodycaresaboutme]

I have a record of 8 failures in a row
I realized that most of cases the shape of selected cells should be simple, like a rectangle. When I strictly selected them and got a complex one, it was often rejected.

 

[Pluto]

 

[GhostInTheMachine]

I swear to god it is inconsistently picky. Take the below for example:

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The top right square probably fell into the same camp. By default, I always select every square with any amount of whatever the thing is it wants me to select. But it usually fails me until I do one with no contentious squares. So sometimes I leave those ones, and it still fucking fails me.

Is that the real test? To see if I get so pissed I smash my computer, which a bot could not do?!

I have NEVER gotten this specific variant to work so I always skip it until I got one of the other types.

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

I suck at these. For the most part I've accepted that I'm a robot, but I do still struggle with the knowledge that being a mecha-duck, my life expectancy is more than likely vastly increased.

 

[_Gollum_]

Too real, they're starting to make them even more complicated too, pretty soon there's going to be no way to tell robot from man lol

 

[Forever Sleep]

I hate those things. I feel really inadequate when I fail.

Apparently, other times, it looks at your browsing history to see if you're human... Sasu, YouTube, Sasu, YouTube, Just Eat, Sasu, Google, Sasu... Reckon it must just 'think'- quick, give them what they want before they kill themselves- in my case.

 

[jpeq]

CAPTCHA is essentially a data farming tool. It's not a bot prevention agent like they portray it to be, it's entirely for data harvesting (and now AI training) and creating a unique user profile. Interestingly, the more privacy tools you use (eg: private DNS host, private browser, cookie/browser history deletion, VPN, etc etc) the more captchas they throw at you... Which means nothing.....

Couple bits of reading if you find the subject interesting or want more proof. Video cites sources in caption.
Interesting video.(and its sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NRMfJo7UrTUuQOacSx2EdxMtQ2PMvdU1GTpCEHqk5Tw/edit?usp=sharing)

"A tracking cookie farm for profit" - report claims reCAPTCHA has caused 819 million hours of wasted human time, and billions in Google profits

Captcha isn't particularly effective at stopping bot traffic either

www.techradar.com

https://www.researchgate.net/profil...r-Verification-System-via-Mouse-Movements.pdf

Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2

Since about 2003, captchas have been widely used as a barrier against bots, while simultaneously annoying great multitudes of users worldwide. As their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass captchas kept improving, while captchas themselves evolved in terms of sophistication and diversity...

arxiv.org

A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

Is that good?

www.pcgamer.com