Mildly Infuriating

These captchas are also collecting data to train AI models

These have been used to train ai for decades. Of course they can solve them, it’s what they are being trained to do by them.

WCAG AAA actually mentions that. Which includes things like OTP. It’s going to be tricky to balance security with accessibility in situations like this for those with cognitive and physical limitations

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/accessible-authentication-enhanced

OTP is a success criteria instead of captchas but then you have issues with accessibility when you require somebody to have a device like a phone for the code or require them to app/context switch. So somebody using a device using their eyes or tongue as an input trigger would have a hard, if not impossible, time logging in with that arrangement.

Eventually shouldn't we theoretically reach a point where AIs can solve any possible practical to use captcha just as well as a human? I kinda wonder what the answer to replace them will eventually be

Oh yeah, it's ableist as fuck. The worst offender I've run into was a CAPTCHA I had to solve to make a neuropsychologist appointment, of all things. Sure, they only required the use of basic skills to solve, but those were the very skills I was seeking treatment for.

Gave up in tears, never got that appointment.

I ran into this recently. Trying to get access to a credit union's system as a vendor, they had a captcha that was the old style image of distorted text, with a text box labeled "are you a robot?". Having the tendency to take things literally, I initially typed "no" into the box. That was not the right answer.

Don't they normally offer other options for people who can't do the visual challenges?

I stumbled on this recently

https://friendlycaptcha.com/

I can hardly claim to know enough about captchas to weigh up the cost / benefit, but I was delighted to come across a captcha that didn't try to force me to train an AI

What year does Recaptcha change its name to Omnius again?

Look man, we can save a lot of time if we send down shielded drones and shoot lasers at them once they're in position

Repeat, I can’t do it, it always fails, and then do another 20 lmao

A little puppet on a tricycle rolls out & asks if you'd like to play a game.

An expired token and you get to play the game again. Sony was using this for their SEN logons and walked back the change after maybe a day (if that). The alternative was hilarious; pick out 10 different sounds only to get an error at the end.

It’s the only time I’ve ever called a support line and asked for an immediate escalation to a manager. Customers locked out of their accounts is very bad for business.

Damn was it strongly worded??

I got that on twitter recently

Thank you. Managed to get through with Safari