This was for querying package delivery status. I finally got one right after many attempts. The layout, layers, colors change after every attempt so good luck on figuring out which letters count.
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Thank you!! I’ve been saying this for years. I have always said that I shouldn’t be forced to train Google’s trash software just because I want to go on some random website. It’s infuriating.
I liked it when it was used to digitise books. Beyond that… nah.
It’s WXU86 or I don’t need this website after all.
Are you dumb?
As my professor used to say, nothing is obvious. What’s obvious to you is not to someone else and vice versa.
I have yet to meet anyone that isn’t dumb in some way or another. Not op, but yes.
Yes
Nice
That hand is facing the wrong way, bot….
How so?? It looks like he’s looking at the back of his hand?
Nice try LLM Diddy
Bizarre grammar there: “Our firewall detects abnormal activity from your IP”. It does? When?
This means you’re a Cylon
It doesn’t look like anything to me.
I don’t see the problem. It’s WXU86.
Much better when they have the little “vision impaired? click here!” button :(
No accessibility options in the captcha? I guess they don’t care about people with vision disability.
That would cost money silly!
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what vision disability would prevent someone from seeing a monochrome image?
Blindness?
Furthermore, we kind of have rules for accessibility.
forgot about that one
Okay as stupid as this is, it’s pretty funny lol
Name and Shame.
The only way this is going to stop is when the organisation is either forced by legislation or embarrassed by public pressure into change.
Legislation only happens due to public pressure.
Legislation only happens due to public pressure.
Or a few wealthy people who want something bad enough to throw money at.
Actually, in neoliberalism, nearly exclusively that.
Voter Support for a Bill Has Near Zero Influence on Whether It Will Become Law
Thanks, I remember reading that a long time ago but hadn’t been able to find it again since.
As others have pointed out, it’s probably the foreground characters. They’re easier to read and less ambiguous from occlusion by other characters.
In general I find you can resolve technical ambiguities or possible loopholes to instructions in these things by asking yourself “what would most people do, especially if not really thinking about it much?” That’s particularly helpful for situations where you have to select all the tiles with x object in them. Often you’ll see that technically there’s a little bit of the object in squares other than the most obvious ones that everyone would have selected and you ask yourself “does that count? Technically a little bit of it’s in this square” but if you just pretend you didn’t notice that and only go for the most dead obvious squares you end up passing. Once I realised this the number of times I failed CAPTCHAs significantly reduced. For some reason the only ones that continued to be a problem were the click a checkbox ones that seemingly analyse your mouse movement because somehow I apparently move like a robot.
Tl;Dr
“just guess right”
Kinda… Slightly more helpful, but almost as vague. I’m advising against opting for solutions that are technically correct but would be more difficult for the average person to get right most of the time.
The OP’s CAPTCHA as a case in point, it’s frustrating for them because they’re ostensibly asked to enter the characters that they see but there are several and the length of the string of characters is not known and some characters are hard to read and depending on how you interpret it you could be being asked to enter all these characters or you could look at them and say there’s a background set and a foreground set in which case, which one is the correct one? That’s at least 3 different ways to do it and that’s assuming that what appears to us a representation of depth is indeed intended to be the basis of separation for 2 sets of characters and not some other arbitrary categorisation or no categorisation. Sounds complicated and ambiguous. Except, it’s much harder to read the background set, and the idea that there would even be some other way of categorising, if it occurs to anyone at all would be impossible to work out since if it’s there, it’s not discernible. The easiest way is to just read the letters that aren’t partially covered up and also smaller than the more obvious, easier to read, not occluded characters and disregard the ones behind it. What’s easiest to do also most of the time turns out to have been the hidden instruction for what you were meant to do.
There’s no explicit instruction to do this, it’s wishy washy and hard to abstract for different CAPTCHAs which is why this advice doesn’t look a whole lot better than “just guess right” but in a way that’s kind of part of why they still have some effectiveness, they’re unspoken rules that humans Intuit. Where some of us, like me before kinda “getting it”, go wrong, is in overthinking and over analysing it. “but what if they mean this? I mean technically it could…” If you’re thinking like that, odds are you’re barking up the wrong tree and the solution is way less sophisticated.
Id imagine it’s the forward most set of characters.
captcha: please click on all the stairs
stairs: literally every box
captcha: incorrect
Its just busy work. The computer uses the time to check for extraneous packets running to your address.
I hate those the most. I get it wrong every single time. Well excuse me for including the rider as part of the motorcycle. I’m trying to save them from self-driving cars clipping their arm or leg on public roads.
Here’s the kicker. You’re not getting it wrong, you’re just being forced to train AI on another one because greedy corpos gonna be greedy.
Wrong in the sense that the machine thinks it is right (or enough people disagreed with your judgement).
How would they even know when they’re using it to train bots?
The same image is shown to a lot of people. If a majority of people click on the same things, that is assumed to be the correct answer. And it is added to the training database. Occasionally you’ll get one that hasn’t been shown to enough people yet to know for sure. For those, they’ll usually accept any answer, even wildly incorrect ones. The thing is, you as a user never know which ones they already know and which they don’t.
it’s really astounding EVERYONE isn’t just using hcaptcha, it’s the only one that actually fucking makes sense and works
Steam uses this, and I swear I’ve been sober and awake when attempting them, but…
If you do the first too fast, it will just show a new one and nauseum. Or that’s my experience anyways.
i’d go with WXU86
Shh don’t tell the machines
woopsie!
Yeah but it’s still obnoxious. I would bet it fucks with dyslexics as well.
