F^%&*$g captchas

Tony EH

Theses things drive me up the bleedin wall and they're getting more and more prevalent.

For the last 20 minutes I've been going around in circles with this crap.

Look at this:




Easy to solve right?

No.




Or how about this? Simple surely?





Wrong.





After a while you get to this madness...




or this...




Or better yet...





WTF is it with these things? How do you actually solve them?




Fuck you internet. :mad:

Leg End Reject

The traffic lights one has shadows of the lights on the ground. I'm too tired to help with the others, but I agree they're a pain in the arse.

tricky D

Sign in
Sign up
Cookie preferences
I am not a robot
Allow Location
Allow notifications

Click this, click that.

Px3FO



2FA excepted

1 sheep2

Apparently you're also being used to determine the correct answer for subsequent people. So if you're shown another one you haven't necessarily got it wrong.

Strumms

headwrecking, another one, which is all the fûcking time on what has been up to now my favorite football news site...

“We use technology such as cookies on our site to collect and use personal data to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site and interests with our partners who also use technologies such as cookies to collect and use personal data to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic on our site and across the internet. You can always change your mind and revisit your choices.”

You’ve been on the site 342,000 times, it could know by your IP address but still the whole content and it’s navigation blocked until you ‘accept’, followed by a 5 second lag and hey presto.

wally79

Tony EH wrote: »

Theses things drive me up the bleedin wall and they're getting more and more prevalent.

For the last 20 minutes I've been going around in circles with this crap.

WTF is it with these things? How do you actually solve them?




Fuck you internet. :mad:

TLDR: Tony EH is a robot. Don’t help him

Tony EH

Bzzzzzz....bleedin capchas.....bzzzzzz

Potential-Monke

I don't mind them as much. I'm far more annoyed by the introduction of multiple click ok pop-ups. Like said above, you've the cookies one, it asks to use you location, it wants to enable notifications, or the worst one yet, let us install a shortcut to the site. Ah, no like!

My favourite by far are the adblock detecting ones. 'Whitelist us or pay money'. Back to the search results I go. Then you have sites that try to guilt you. 'You're using an adblocker. We make money from ads. Please whitelist us or pay money, or continue with the adblocking". I shall continue, thank you. Would be great if you could remember that option every time! Not my fault you show up high in search results, must mean you're not doing too bad!

daheff

This is machine learning. It's using you to teach the machine how to find buses/bicycles/blah blah.

Really annoying sh1t. We should boycott sites that use this stuff.

branie2

Websites that ask you to accept cookies, and don't offer an option to decline are the worst in my opinion

Terrontress

When concert tickets go on sale at 11am, half the scalpers in the world want to buy them to tout on StubHub, and you get faced with that.

It is enough to make you weep.

Treppen

Freeky one is when it uses you to learn house numbers.

Like if aliens landed and and said "can you help us to map your entire planet" and you say "sure bud no problem".

BTW if you want to glitch the system get a few wrong.

Woke Hogan

Treppen wrote: »

Freeky one is when it uses you to learn house numbers.

Like if aliens landed and and said "can you help us to map your entire planet" and you say "sure bud no problem".

BTW if you want to glitch the system get a few wrong.

Glitch the system, man. Hack the planet!

Tony EH

daheff wrote: »

This is machine learning. It's using you to teach the machine how to find buses/bicycles/blah blah.

Really annoying sh1t. We should boycott sites that use this stuff.

Well, I wish it would learn quicker. Having to go round the flippin houses and back just to get to content I actually want to use is annoying, to say the least.

ILoveYourVibes

I don't feel alone anymore..

LeYouth

Tony EH wrote: »

Theses things drive me up the bleedin wall and they're getting more and more prevalent.

For the last 20 minutes I've been going around in circles with this crap.

Look at this:




Easy to solve right?

No.




Or how about this? Simple surely?





Wrong.





After a while you get to this madness...




or this...




Or better yet...





WTF is it with these things? How do you actually solve them?




Fuck you internet. :mad:

I came across a crypto platform, where they had an air gate, like a big vertical wooden square standing in a warehouse. With this thing, you had to click the corners of the square to get through to the next stage of registration. They didn't specify if it's the inner side of the square or the outside one. Then there's a white barrier on the inside of the square with a border. Fuking horrendous thing, to pass.

This is why i cant stand developers. They always make things way too complicated. Look at Gmail for instance, i mean there's far too much crap in the user interface. Outlook is much more easy to use.

biko

CAPTCHA or Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, aren't your enemy, although they can frustrate people.

For instance ReCaptcha is a rather clever service to help digitize books scanned into the Internet Archive.

Timberrrrrrrr

wally79 wrote: »

TLDR: Tony EH is a robot. Don’t help him

ka2

They do my head in, I'd rather have the bots at this stage if this is the best they can do to tell them apart. :mad:

In any case, all you're really doing is training Google's self-driving car AI. Free labour for them.

Cuddlesworth

biko wrote: »

For instance ReCaptcha is a rather clever service to help digitize books scanned into the Internet Archive.

That is Recaptcha. They started with using Humans to train AI in text recognition, now they are working on image recognition. Notice the way most of the pictures are asking for specific things, like lights/buses/bicycles/fire hydrants. Being able to recognise them accurately seems very beneficial to lets say, self driving cars.

Tony EH

biko wrote: »

CAPTCHA or Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, aren't your enemy, although they can frustrate people.

For instance ReCaptcha is a rather clever service to help digitize books scanned into the Internet Archive.

I don't want to be part of that "service". I just want to be able to access the content I DO want to read/see without the merry-go-round hassle of trying to help Google with it's bots.

listermint

All the new ones seem to be very much focused towards Automated Driving and self driving vehicles.

They are using you to learn image content so its sold on to AI developers developing vehicle guidance and avoidance systems



$$$$

Church on Tuesday

These bad boys require a bit of abstract thinking.

iamstop

Potential-Monke wrote: »

My favourite by far are the adblock detecting ones. 'Whitelist us or pay money'. Back to the search results I go. Then you have sites that try to guilt you. 'You're using an adblocker. We make money from ads. Please whitelist us or pay money, or continue with the adblocking". I shall continue, thank you. Would be great if you could remember that option every time! Not my fault you show up high in search results, must mean you're not doing too bad!

What I do if it's a news article I want to read but that ad block thing pops up is
1. Press 'Ctrl + A' to highlight the whole page
2. Press 'Ctrl + C' to copy all the text.
3. Open Word, new document
4. Right click and in the paste option click 'Keep Text Only'
5. There is going to be some funky formatting but you get all the text from the story to read ad free.

el diablo

Yeah, they're ridiculously annoying as is the fact that we're being forced to do unpaid labour for Google.

Canis Lupus

You enjoying GTA5?

Potential-Monke

Treppen wrote: »

Like if aliens landed and and said "can you help us to map your entire planet" and you say "sure bud no problem".

If aliens land and want directions, and all we currently have is Space Force, I will be the first to welcome our alien overlords and try to make myself as useful as possible for as long as possible.

Especially so if they want to upgrade my body to something akin to Cyborg. I shall then be their sword!

el diablo

el diablo wrote: »

Yeah, they're ridiculously annoying as is the fact that we're being forced to do unpaid labour for Google.

Forced by websites you choose to use. If you don't want to do unpaid labour for Google, browse elsewhere.

el diablo

Deleted User wrote: »

Forced by websites you choose to use. If you don't want to do unpaid labour for Google, browse elsewhere.

It's not on sites I browse on. It's sites where I need to log in such as car rental, cryptocurrency websites etc.

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branie2 wrote: »

Websites that ask you to accept cookies, and don't offer an option to decline are the worst in my opinion

The add on for for Firefox I don't Care About Cookies get rid of the question

screamer

Had to go through the misery of these on the revenue my account site today. About 6 of them to log in. Given that revenue won’t even take phone queries at the moment I think it’s disgraceful to force people through these things. I felt like throwing the phone out the window.

mikeym

A bloody nightmare.

cj maxx

What's a good free as blocker?

Esel

cj maxx wrote: »

What's a good free as blocker?

Presume you mean ad blocker?

I use uBlock Origin on Firefox.

screamer

screamer wrote: »

Had to go through the misery of these on the revenue my account site today. About 6 of them to log in. Given that revenue won’t even take phone queries at the moment I think it’s disgraceful to force people through these things. I felt like throwing the phone out the window.

Disgraceful? Jesus. What times of luxury we live in when taking care of your finances while sitting on your couch not having to talk to someone is completely and utterly ruined by spending a little bit of time proving you're a human.

What is the alternate? I mean even I could write a bot that would spam log ins and passwords till I got access to someone's account. It's simply a small price to pay to reduce fraud.

If ye don't like it, use other less secure services. Get in your car and visit them when things open. Sure driving and parking and making a whole afternoon out of it is better than clicking a few photos of bicycles.

Flickerfusion

I hate to break it to some of you, but you're probably very sophisticated (but early prototype) Androids built by Noonien Soong in the 24th century and transported back in time and unfortunately stuck here, unable to break CAPTCHAs. If you look VERY carefully, you'll realise your blinking patterns are in fact not random, but pseudorandom and controlled by an algorithm.

el diablo

Flickerfusion wrote: »

I hate to break it to some of you, but you're probably very sophisticated (but early prototype) Androids built by Noonien Soong in the 24th century and transported back in time and unfortunately stuck here, unable to break CAPTCHAs. If you look VERY carefully, you'll realise your blinking patterns are in fact not random, but pseudorandom and controlled by an algorithm.

Dude, you might actually be on to something there. :eek:

el diablo

cj maxx wrote: »

What's a good free as blocker?

Ad Blocker Ultimate is a free ad blocker on Chrome that works well. I also use Ghostery and No Scripts and HTTPs Everywhere as well as Brave browser which blocks all ads (unless you choose to see ads- (you get paid to view them)) and trackers. www.brave.com

Maybe that's the reason I'm required to solve so many of these f*&king captchas.

80j2lc5y7u6qs9

cj maxx wrote: »

What's a good free as blocker?

Adblock Plus. make sure you untick "allow some non intrusive ads" unless you want them. I think it is pre ticked

On phone blockada is good too. I think it is only android

uBlock Origin is the one to use. Adblock take money to let some ads through.

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Deleted User wrote: »

uBlock Origin is the one to use. Adblock take money to let some ads through.

you can stop them coming through if you mean Adblock Plus

That just sounds like extra steps.

Rodney Bathgate

cj maxx wrote: »

What's a good free as blocker?

Why do you want an as blocker? Porn addiction?

Rodney Bathgate

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Why do you want an as blocker? Porn addiction?

What?

Ads are an easy vector for getting malware. Dodgy ads can find their way into any site. And Youtube is a lot more enjoyable without ads.

wally79

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What?

Ads are an easy vector for getting malware. Dodgy ads can find their way into any site. And Youtube is a lot more enjoyable without ads.

I don’t know

Your username would lead me to think you may have some bias in this discussion

Rodney Bathgate

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What?

Ads are an easy vector for getting malware. Dodgy ads can find their way into any site. And Youtube is a lot more enjoyable without ads.

I wasn’t talking about an ad blocker

cj maxx

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Why do you want an as blocker? Porn addiction?

No. Is it only porn sites that show ads?

Rodney Bathgate

cj maxx wrote: »

No. Is it only porn sites that show ads?

He asked about an ‘as blocker’, nothing to do with ads. I assumed it was a typo and that he meant ‘ass blocker’.

cj maxx

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

He asked about an ‘as blocker’, nothing to do with ads. I assumed it was a typo and that he meant ‘ass blocker’.

No ad blocker