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F^%&*$g captchas

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  • 25-05-2020 2:06am
    #1
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,956 ✭✭✭✭


    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:

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    Easy to solve right?

    No.

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    Or how about this? Simple surely?


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    Wrong.

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    After a while you get to this madness...

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    or this...

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    Or better yet...

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




    Fuck you internet. :mad:


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    #2
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,436 ✭✭✭✭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.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



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    #3
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


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

    Click this, click that.

    Px3FO



    2FA excepted


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    #4
    1 sheep2
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭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.


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    #5
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,839 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #6
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭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


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    #7
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,956 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


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


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    #8
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,832 ✭✭✭✭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!


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    #9
    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭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.


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    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


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


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    #11
    Terrontress
    Registered Users Posts: 3,888 ✭✭✭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.


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    #12
    Treppen
    Registered Users Posts: 4,566 ✭✭✭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.


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    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭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!


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    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,956 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #15
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I don't feel alone anymore..


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    #16
    LeYouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭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:

    1.jpg


    Easy to solve right?

    No.

    2.jpg


    Or how about this? Simple surely?


    3.jpg


    Wrong.

    4.jpg



    After a while you get to this madness...

    5.jpg


    or this...

    6.jpg


    Or better yet...

    7.jpg



    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.


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    #17
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,425 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    wally79 wrote: »
    TLDR: Tony EH is a robot. Don’t help him

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    ka2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭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.


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    #20
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,981 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #21
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,956 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,692 ✭✭✭✭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



    $$$$


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    #23
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    These bad boys require a bit of abstract thinking.


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    #24
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,890 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #25
    el diablo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭el diablo


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

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



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    #26
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    You enjoying GTA5?


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    #27
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,832 ✭✭✭✭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!


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    #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


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    el diablo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭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.

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



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    80j2lc5y7u6qs9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 957 ✭✭✭80j2lc5y7u6qs9


    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


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    #31
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭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.


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