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Why is Captcha such a chore now?

Nymphae

Nymphae

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Captcha used to be mildly annoying - type some gibberish and hit enter. Sometimes you'd get the curveball, type only the gibberish with the dots above it, etc.

Then it seemed like they figured shit out, and all I had to do was move my mouse to the checkbox, and clicking that was enough. Now I'm doing that still, but afterwards, I also have to complete a fucking kindergarten find and seek challenge, typically multiple times, to get through the Captcha. Click all the boxes with storefronts! Cars! Sidewalks! Street signs! Like one day I swear it made me do the thing like 6 fucking times and I just said fuck the website.
 
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I find it a lot worse using a VPN. Google is the worst for me. When it pulls that shit I just go to Bing.
 
Today I was trying to log into Gaf from a new browser, and had to do the captcha search for these images I think 6 times. I just don't get how we went from literally no input required other than a click for a captcha, to reverting to something that takes longer than the original typing captchas did.
 
Nymphae said:
Today I was trying to log into Gaf from a new browser, and had to do the captcha search for these images I think 6 times. I just don't get how we went from literally no input required other than a click for a captcha, to reverting to something that takes longer than the original typing captchas did.
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Yeah, I hate this image captcha which changes numerous times before finally unlocking. More than half the time I close the browser tab and don't bother.
 
Nymphae said:
Captcha used to be mildly annoying - type some gibberish and hit enter. Sometimes you'd get the curveball, type only the gibberish with the dots above it, etc.

Then it seemed like they figured shit out, and all I had to do was move my mouse to the checkbox, and clicking that was enough. Now I'm doing that still, but afterwards, I also have to complete a fucking kindergarten find and seek challenge, typically multiple times, to get through the Captcha. Click all the boxes with storefronts! Cars! Sidewalks! Street signs! Like one day I swear it made me do the thing like 6 fucking times and I just said fuck the website.
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I think they're just using it for machine learning at our expense.
 
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The Bloody-Nine said:
I really, really hate that stupid shit. Half the time the photo is blurry and you can't see anything anyway.
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Or I have to click all the boxes with traffic lights, but a fucking milimeter of the corner of one light is in a box by itself, so I'm not sire if that means I should include it or not, either way I'm wrong and need to do another one!
 
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It was interesting to find out that Captcha makes money on both ends. Sites will pay Captcha to prevent automated spam etc, and they also get paid to help identify images that AI itself can't identify (traffic lights, bridges, etc). Genius business model.

I hate the ones that keep showing new pictures after you select one, they go on forever sometimes.
 
Pejo said:
Sites will pay Captcha to prevent automated spam etc, and they also get paid to help identify images that AI itself can't identify (traffic lights, bridges, etc). Genius business model.
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Should have figured it was all about revenue and nothing to do with making sure I'm a sentient being.
 
I actually find the new picture grid ones much easier than the old ones that had the letters all camoflauged with background clutter. I'd often get those wrong, so I am glad too see less of those.
 
lil puff said:
I actually find the new picture grid ones much easier than the old ones that had the letters all camoflauged with background clutter. I'd often get those wrong, so I am glad too see less of those.
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As annoying as I've found those, I don't think any of them has ever taken me as long as the 6 click the crosswalks/traffic lights/cars per captcha does.

NickFire said:
OP had the balls to say what millions are feeling. I like OP.
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OP likes you.
 
Nymphae said:
Why is this exactly? I use ublock.
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The new captcha (version 3?) rates your browser based on how "trackable" you are. The more data they can collect, higher your score. If you score is lower than a certain threshold, captcha deduce that you're probably a bot. This is fine if you're a "normie" using chrome with no privacy extensions and with your google account logged in, but if you are on , lets say, firefox + ublock + other extensions and no google account, captcha may force you to try many times because it thinks you're a bot.
 
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Maybe becouse Who create bots are more advanced to avoid CAPTCHA..so they have to find different ways annoying for normal user that they don't do phishing and scamming... Twitter have lots of fake/bot user like "free follower" or "free GTA Money" and so on...
 
As someone who had to endure not having a 4chan pass for a few months, I learned the secret to making the image one suck less:

Simply click skip until it changes to verify, then solve just that page.
 
Pejo said:
It was interesting to find out that Captcha makes money on both ends. Sites will pay Captcha to prevent automated spam etc, and they also get paid to help identify images that AI itself can't identify (traffic lights, bridges, etc). Genius business model.

I hate the ones that keep showing new pictures after you select one, they go on forever sometimes.
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Basically this. It's a way to get free training data. The irony here is that this data will be used to create more advanced AI procedures that will be able to solve these captchas. So captchas in the future would have to be more and more advanced... at one point they will ask you for something only a dumb human could do like be wrong at solving math problems.
 
HUELEN10 said:
As someone who had to endure not having a 4chan pass for a few months, I learned the secret to making the image one suck less:

Simply click skip until it changes to verify, then solve just that page.
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>having a 4chan pass
>not using 4chanx
>not using 4chanx with legacy captcha
ishygddt
 
it's simple. the robots are becoming more intelligent. it's getting harder to tell the difference between humans and robots.

it's the only explanation!

seriously though. fuck captchas. there surely has to be a better way to do this? i wouldn't mind them so much but i HATE when it takes forever to load a new photo and you need to do multiple tests.
 
They had to step up their game once people realised how the old two-word captcha worked; one word would be for actual verification and the other would just be them getting you to translate texts for free. So people would enter the verification word correctly and then replace the other word with all manner of slurs and obscenities.

It was pretty good.
 
Its harder because the Robots are learning and getting smarter.

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They found a way to monetize captcha, it is now used to train AI photo recognitions, there's a reason why all those photos are driving related.
 
F the person that invented this shit. The letters were stupid annoying since half the time you can't see it clearly. Now these stupid pictures you click even if you click the correct ones, it won't acknowledge it and spins up a different one.
 
Fuck Google and Fuck Captcha, i literally had to go through about 30 of this puzzles that make you click on all the cars or all the trees in a picture. I almost took my laptop and flung it out a 4th story window.
 
PSlayer said:
The new captcha (version 3?) rates your browser based on how "trackable" you are. The more data they can collect, higher your score. If you score is lower than a certain threshold, captcha deduce that you're probably a bot. This is fine if you're a "normie" using chrome with no privacy extensions and with your google account logged in, but if you are on , lets say, firefox + ublock + other extensions and no google account, captcha may force you to try many times because it thinks you're a bot.
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Yeah, I was trying to get away from Google so I went back with Firefox but every time I did a search this stupid Captcha pops up. Firefox kept crashing my tabs so I said fuck it and went back to Chrome.
 
demigod said:
Yeah, I was trying to get away from Google so I went back with Firefox but every time I did a search this stupid Captcha pops up. Firefox kept crashing my tabs so I said fuck it and went back to Chrome.
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I've been using Brave as a chrome replacement - it's exactly Chrome but with a few more privacy options on by default. Try it!

But Vivaldi is the greatest browser ever. The customization is unreal, I had never heard of this before this week and now I love it. You can do tab stacks.
 
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nikolino840 said:
Maybe becouse Who create bots are more advanced to avoid CAPTCHA..so they have to find different ways annoying for normal user that they don't do phishing and scamming... Twitter have lots of fake/bot user like "free follower" or "free GTA Money" and so on...
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This is the answer in part.

Also, Google uses the answers to the captcha images to enhance their own image recognition models.

In a set of images, a few of them are pre-identified by Google, the control group, and a small sample are images Google's image recognition model has trouble identifying, test group. They use the answers to the test group as a decentralized turk system that feeds data into image recognition models.


tl;dr . Google could make a less complex captcha system, but they want to collect data in return for their services. Nothing on the internet is free.

https://www.techradar.com/news/capt...en-training-ai-for-years-without-realising-it
 
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RedVIper said:
I think they're just using it for machine learning at our expense.
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They are using it to train drones to recognize infrastructure targets. Before they can recognize the important things, they need to get rid of the visual clutter. That's why they are starting with things like traffic lights and cross walks (while mixing in things like bridges). Soon, they'll be able to couple this information with their Maps to identify infrastructure choke points, and a couple of drones can isolate and shut down a city in minutes.

Basically, Google is building SkyNet and we're helping.
 
Flood control is actually beneficial. I know a guy that spams on another forum with scat porn and other weird nonsense. So all this extra security is necessary for to keep idiots like that at bay.
 
captcha evolves as technology evolves, and most captcha is used to teach ai how to do things

like everything, it's a commodity

but yeah, it's absolutely used to teach drones to target and kill lol, among other things

just so you know what those porn captchas are being used for
 
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Google is using it to train their self driving cars, and to bully people who have enabled privacy settings on their browsers because it's harder to harvest data from them.

That being said I'm not sure what I hate the most of the new ones and the old ones that had text that was so unreadable to me that I started to question my own humanity.
 
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