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I hate those where they ask you to select all the squares containing something. How much of the thing must be in the square for it to count? What if it just touches a corner of a square? I almost never get it right on the first try.
Also those stupid ones where you have to click all the pictures containing a certain thing, which then gets replaced by a different picture and you have to keep clicking until they're all gone. Those pictures often take FOREVER to appear, which causes you to time out.
Fuck Google.
Just rapidly select a large square and delete what absolutely doesn't have part of the object, cause there seems to be a really heavy weight on "they corrected themselves" to accept the first time
Those were designed with the lowest common denominator in mind. Either option is fine.
Doesn't matter if it has a pixel inside the square or not. It has multiple answers.
I don't bother when a fractions of a square is filled. Most of the time, selecting 3 squares is more than enough.
It's intentional. Recapacha will outright lie to you about getting a challenge wrong if it thinks you're protecting yourself too much. Same with [Google] outright refusing logins if it doesn't like your IP address (but it does confirm the username and password were correct!)
Yeah, this. I get these all the time and I'm pretty sure it's google punishing me for using a VPN and a privacy browser. Sometimes I have to solve a dozen problems in a row just to pass their check...
Yeah I feel like recently they've gotten much pickier and I've had a lot of failures. Super annoying.
They need more training data for their models.
Because one thing "AI" is good at is faking it's human. Now we have a machine that's good at faking humanity and thus actual humans have to jump through even more hoops to prove they are not "AI". Too bad "AI" is not useful anywhere else.
And in doing so we are making the AI even better at pretending it's human, necessitating even more hoops in the future
They probably have AI generate the captcha problems and solutions...
If it contains one pixel, it contains it.
But I don't know if a saddle bag on a motorcycle counts as a motorcycle. Or if the handrail on the stairs is part of the stairs.
It really pisses me off when it tells me I failed it, when I got it right..
This caused me to try the sound option once and I never went back.
The more you're flagged the longest the picture take to appear