• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    It doesn’t really matter, they don’t expect you to get everything right on these. While most of the time you need to get mostly right (Google is using these to train their AI so often they are not sure themselves), they are also looking at other things, like how you move your mouse, and the cookies that they use to spy on people to determine the probability of you being a human. If you pass a certain threshold they let you through, and you can do it even if you miss a square.

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      I’m convinced the person that put it together has never touched a faster-paced mouse+keyboard game in their life, because clicking all the correct squares too fast also causes the test to fail

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        That’s what a bot would say /s

        But you’re right, the UX sucks, and there are other ways to detect and limit bots that don’t impact legitimate users as much - but Google needs to train their AI, and developers need to cargo cult stuff.

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        These things feel like they are made by microsoft. You click somewhere, wait 3-10 seconds and then you can click again.

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          Just use a click delay program between press and input, maybe with a physical on/off switch on a dedicated keyboard next to the mouse together with other necessary keys (like the one button switch between EN and SE layouts or the Memory Cache Dump Key)

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        A bot trying to solve the captcha would be very fast so it makes sense that they block fast solvers.

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      and the cookies that they use to spy on people to determine the probability of you being a human

      which is why I assume, as a VPN user who rejects as many cookies as possible, I constantly have to do 5-6 fucking captchas in a row, sometimes more, before it’ll let me through… I can’t be that bad at doing them lol

      Is it frustrating? Fuck yeah. Will it get me to change my behaviour and drop those measures so that the companies getting in my way can collect more of my data? Fuck no.

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      I use a trackball mouse for disability reasons. I have to actively slow my cursor movement to a crawl and deliberately slowly click each square otherwise I fail captcha’s

      it’s infuriating