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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Nowadays there are some really annoying CAPTCHAs out there, such as:

  • "Click over the figures that are upwards/downwards" and various rotated bears
  • "Rotate the figure until it matches the given orientation" and a finger pointing to some random direction, as well as rotation buttons that don't work the way you would mathematically expect them to work
  • "Select all the images with a bicycle until there are none left" and the images take centuries to fade away after you click them
  • "Select all the squares containing a bus" and there are squares with the very corner of the bus that make you wonder if they are considered as part of "squares containing A bus"
  • "Fit the puzzle piece", although this is the least annoying one

In summary, the CAPTCHAs seemingly are becoming less of a "prove you're not a robot" and more of an forced IQ test. I can see the day when CAPTCHAs will ask you to write down a Laplacian transform for the solution f(x) to the differential equation governing the motion of a mass considering the resistance of air and aerodynamics, or write down a detailed solution to the P versus NP problem.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

It's when they make you do like 20 of them. Bitch you already stopped the DDOS let me see my balance fuck.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sony has the most annoying ones, which are designed to prevent people from submitting tickets. They'll show you like 10 dice, and ask what they add up to. They make you solve like 16 of them before they let you continue. Shit should be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The math ones are ridiculous.
Guess what computers are inherently great at?
Math.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Because they're not there to stop computers, they're there to stop people from getting legitimate support from a company that owes it to them.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Those "select tiles with a bicycle" are us training image recognition programs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, CAPTCHAs these days track mouse movements and other factors. They make you second guess if something should be included because, as a human, that's going to be something you do. And it'll be obvious from both that hesitation and your squishy, inaccurate mouse movements that you're a human.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can't track mouse movements on mobile though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You used to could, on Blackberry at least.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

at that point i just assume im the one they are keeping out and just close the tab

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I hate the puzzle piece ones, they never actually load the site for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They'll make you listen to Vogon poetry. If your head explodes, you're not a bot.