I FUCKING HATE GOOGLE CAPTCHAS
Sometimes when I’m on VPN or TOR these little fucks won’t let me in no matter what, but instead of showing error message or something, they just keep throwing new traffic lights or bicycles at me
If you are using Firefox, switch your default search engine to DuckDuckGo, haven’t gotten a captcha from them once. And right in the search bar you can switch to Google if DDG isn’t doing too well on a particular search, I do end up doing that about 5% of the time.
I’ve been using VPN, Firefox and DDG as default search engine for years and I’m filling captchas every single day.
A lot of times those are the backup captchas, the normal one looks at your browser history instead. Using a VPN will change your IP and throw off the history logs, or a setting on your browser
Nah, it’s cause you’re on an ip blacklist. While lots of people use vpns just for privacy reasons, there is also a lot of abuse from them and the ips get blacklisted frequently.
For those who are confused by what we mean by “free training”, read this article:
Honestly, we should be paid for every CAPTCHA we complete. The amount of free labour big tech steals from us is astounding.
Isn’t that Amazon’s Mechanical Turk?
Is that still a thing?
The payout for Mechanical Turk was abysmal. You’d make more money walking down the street and picking up the occasional quarter.
There’s some anti-CAPTCHA services where they do just that. You pay so you don’t have to fill them out. I’m guessing they have a bunch of Indian guys just filling out CAPTCHAs.
Theres ons that uses ai to do it
Pfft, AI is just thousands of Indians behind a curtain
Just ask Amazon
The Mechanical Turk thing?
There is an extension that solves those:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/
I never know if I’m supposed to click the squares that have a tiny bit of the object or not. I hate the ones like this where you have to do 3-4 screens and then it fails you.
I like some of the newer captchas where it’s like “choose the heaviest animal” and it’s trippy pics of birds, dogs, and elephants.
It doesn’t matter because they show the images to multiple people and even shift the images around. If a square is only halfway there some people will click it, some won’t and this way you can generate some sort of heat map which is all you need to label your training data.
And then you’ll fail 50% of those people because fuck them, fill out more captchas you monkey
The secret is, it doesn’t matter.
I always click at least one wrong square on purpose, just to fuck with their training data. Most of the time it accepts it anyways.
Why?
To fuck with the training data. But don’t worry, most of the time it accepts it anyways.
That’s what he’s doing. Not why he’s doing it?
Because fuck them, that’s why. Nobody, not a single person, is out there trying to make AI that will make the lives of average humans more livable. 100% of it is for corporate profit. Oh yeah, they’re gonna replace your job. And then where do you think your income will come from? It won’t. Come from anywhere. You’ll just be out of a job, no longer able to afford rent or food, but don’t worry because for a brief moment, they really maximized shareholder value. In the short term at least. And that’s all that matters anymore right?
I don’t want to: not only work directly toward that goal, but also do it for free. There isn’t much you or I could do to stop this shit short of revolting, but if enough people were to fuck with Captchas, it would absolutely have an impact on the rate at which this tech is ruining our lives.
I mean if you think about it, you’re doing unpaid labor to prove you’re a human.
Because assuming you are human is not so much about the correctest of selections as much as it’s about moving the cursor around the screen in imprecise, non robotic, humanly ways.
There is something fundamentally wrong with having to prove I’m human. Especially to a machine.
On its surface, it’s a good idea. Website hosts don’t want to be inundated with fake traffic and fake data inserted by bots.
But it’s entirely unnecessary when your local library or doctor’s office is using captcha just for you to fill out a form, it’s a bit excessive because it’s highly unlikely any type of botnet would be targeting sign up fields on their sites. The attackers wouldn’t get anything out of it.
Eh, not that unlikely.
The bots just scan everything they can.For example, I’ve seen a guy do some testing with SSH server on default port (22). On average, there was constant 10Mbps of traffic just from the login attempts.
I can imagine it to be similar with websites.
If it doesn’t like your answer it doesn’t say you’re wrong. It just gives you another puzzle to solve. Even if you’re right, sometimes it gives you multiple puzzles anyway. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
I fucking hate that scenario. Click on buses: ok, that the corner by a few pixels. Does it expect that or will it make me do another captcha?
Ever since I’ve understood that it accepts objectively wrong answers as long as it somehow seems as if you gave it some thought, I’ve made sure to hinder the accuracy of models that try to use my data.
Meanwhile I use a VPN, so half the time it rejects me no matter what. It’s really fucking annoying.
Ever since image captchas were created, they’ve fail me 50% of the time, so I’ve spammed a lot of random shit that’s been accepted. If you get run over by an AI truck, I’m sorry.
You might be a bot.
It’s mostly just making sure you move your mouse like a human.
The test and the answer as proposed is irrelevant.
Why does it keep asking me over and over again, then…and then other times, it doesn’t. Did I accidentally move my mouse like a robot? Several times in a row?
It’s more likely your IP was flagged for a reason unrelated to the captcha so it’s giving you more challenges to verify.
