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DampCat · 14 Jan 2019 at 13:54

What the hell is this, and when will it go away? It's the most frustrating, ludicrous thing on the internet. I've walked away from signing up to things because I just dont have the patience in me to go through it.

Im trying to unsubscribe to something someone has used my email address before and gone through 20 pages of CAPTCHA before it said "Incorrect CAPTCHA" and I almost lost my mind.

No way to just block it, eh?

iamdjdz · 14 Jan 2019 at 13:55

If it gives a tick for showing you aren't a robot then move your mouse around the page and over it a couple of times before clicking and it sometimes doesn't show up.

They're annoying as anything.

XeNoN89 · 14 Jan 2019 at 14:24

too many bots on the internet.

robfosters · 14 Jan 2019 at 14:31

It’s always shopfronts and traffic lights.

Randomface74 · 14 Jan 2019 at 14:34

Yeah it does my head in too. The internet is rubbish confirmed.

Minstadave · 14 Jan 2019 at 14:34

Sometimes it makes you do multiple rounds of it. So annoying.

CREATIVE!11 · 14 Jan 2019 at 14:44

I had to do one of these other day to reset my Origin password....

I literally did 10 different ones.... just kept saying it's wrong.

I was raged.

Diddums · 14 Jan 2019 at 14:49

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Just **** off already :mad:

DaleTheWhale · 14 Jan 2019 at 14:54

Diddums said:
We use cookies. K?

Not direct to you Diddums, but is there a plugin somewhere that auto "OK" the cookie notification on webpages, my god they infuriate me.

thegreysquirrel · 14 Jan 2019 at 15:02

Minstadave said:
Sometimes it makes you do multiple rounds of it. So annoying.

At that point I always just presume I'm either an idiot and can't recognise a bridge, or I'm actually being used in a CAPTCHA solving company without realising it.

Hades · 14 Jan 2019 at 15:04

robfosters said:
It’s always shopfronts and traffic lights.

I've had hills and cars before.

Orionaut · 14 Jan 2019 at 15:30

thegreysquirrel said:
At that point I always just presume I'm either an idiot and can't recognise a bridge, or I'm actually being used in a CAPTCHA solving company without realising it.

Actually...! :/

That is not an unlikely scenario!

It wont be long before AI bots will be able to do this really!

englishpremier · 14 Jan 2019 at 15:55

The worst thing is that it's full of American tat.

Try to check a tracking number on Royal Mail and you get this American CAPTCHA asking you to select all crosswalks? Many will be like WTF is a crosswalk. Same on some of the official Spanish websites I use. 'Select all store fronts' and get pixelated images of old store fronts from some low rent single rise US town, that looks nothing like any store front you'd find in Europe.

Azza · 14 Jan 2019 at 15:56

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/captchas-dont-prove-youre-human-they-prove-youre-american/

Diddums · 14 Jan 2019 at 16:03

thegreysquirrel said:
At that point I always just presume I'm either an idiot and can't recognise a bridge, or I'm actually being used in a CAPTCHA solving company without realising it.

Orionaut said:
Actually...! :/

That is not an unlikely scenario!

It wont be long before AI bots will be able to do this really!

That's exactly what it's for. Remember the old ones where you had two numbers next to each other? The left one was the actual captcha and the right one was irrelevant, Google just wanted to see what you put in. Turns out the numbers were house numbers for Streetview.

https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses/

https://aibusiness.com/recaptcha-trains-google-robots/

englishpremier · 14 Jan 2019 at 16:05

Azza said:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/captchas-dont-prove-youre-human-they-prove-youre-american/

Yep exactly this. I could do with less 'Murica in my life, not more of it.

Let's have one that asks us to select the inept British/European politicians or similar.

adolf hamster · 14 Jan 2019 at 16:08

englishpremier said:
Let's have one that asks us to select the inept British/European politicians or similar.

the idea is to make it harder for robots to get through the test not to make selecting everything a valid answer

UTmaniac · 14 Jan 2019 at 16:09

ThaReaperGuy said:
Not direct to you Diddums, but is there a plugin somewhere that auto "OK" the cookie notification on webpages, my god they infuriate me.

Have a browse of https://singletrackworld.com/forum/ (a bike forum, but with lots of GD style topics thrown in) for a few minutes and try to stay cool. They value your privacy, but not your patience!

antijoke · 14 Jan 2019 at 16:45

You're actually helping Google to train their AI by completing these things.

Vexr · 14 Jan 2019 at 18:00

antijoke said:
You're actually helping Google to train their AI by completing these things.

Yep. They hire people to go through captcha-like grids of footage from driverless cars to identify road signs and other relevant features for the AI to mull over.

So a bit like using self-service checkouts at supermarkets, you're working for free when completing captchas. While there's some benefits to the former, the latter is quite the scam.