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Not in my experience. It would give me “select cars until none are visible” and it would be replacing the last car by another one for a long time. Then, when th

by yoz-y 9y ago

Not in my experience. It would give me “select cars until none are visible” and it would be replacing the last car by another one for a long time. Then, when there are finally none, it would just offer another captcha, such a as “click on storefronts until there are none”. And so on and on

Freak_NL 9y ago
Their mapping AI isn't going to train itself, and unlike the proofreading CAPTCHA, this one actually benefits Google's bottom line by providing free input for a proprietary data set. These Google CAPTCHA's are deployed all over the internet, but you mostly won't notice them until you use a VPN. When you do, you get them at what seems to be their strictest setting: multiple rounds of 'click the object that is a car/storefront/road/mountain/road sign/bus/river', where all pictures clicked are replaced via a fade-out-fade-in that lasts about five seconds before you can continue evaluating the new picture.
- yoz-y 9y ago
  I do not blame Google, they do what they do for their own benefit. However, when I do get to solve a never ending captcha in a mobile app, while being logged with a user account, while buying a cinema ticket—I get really pissed. Not at Google, but at whoever thought that putting a captcha there was a good idea.
- Tijdreiziger 9y ago
  That happens to me when browsing normally on my home Internet connection (no VPN). I think it's because Google thinks I'm a robot (I frequently don't even touch my mouse and check the CAPTCHA box using my keyboard, or just move my mouse cursor in a straight line to the CAPTCHA), so it appears we've entered an era where you're punished for being too efficient at using a Web browser.
squarefoot 9y ago
Same here. I'm starting to wonder if they're doing that on purpose to profile real users according to how fast they solve multiple captchas, say by measuring reaction times between every click on a "car", or to refine their anti bot algorithms by doing a deeper analysis of real user behavior. Whatever their intentions are, it's frustrating.
- yoz-y 9y ago
  My guess is that most of the "automatic" stuff is done using cookies and other fingerprinting techniques. In safari I hit the longer captchas far more often than in chrome, and it is quite possible that it is because of the ad blocking tech inside.

by yoz-y 9y ago

Freak_NL 9y ago

Their mapping AI isn't going to train itself, and unlike the proofreading CAPTCHA, this one actually benefits Google's bottom line by providing free input for a proprietary data set. These Google CAPTCHA's are deployed all over the internet, but you mostly won't notice them until you use a VPN. When you do, you get them at what seems to be their strictest setting: multiple rounds of 'click the object that is a car/storefront/road/mountain/road sign/bus/river', where all pictures clicked are replaced via a fade-out-fade-in that lasts about five seconds before you can continue evaluating the new picture.

yoz-y 9y ago
I do not blame Google, they do what they do for their own benefit. However, when I do get to solve a never ending captcha in a mobile app, while being logged with a user account, while buying a cinema ticket—I get really pissed. Not at Google, but at whoever thought that putting a captcha there was a good idea.
Tijdreiziger 9y ago
That happens to me when browsing normally on my home Internet connection (no VPN). I think it's because Google thinks I'm a robot (I frequently don't even touch my mouse and check the CAPTCHA box using my keyboard, or just move my mouse cursor in a straight line to the CAPTCHA), so it appears we've entered an era where you're punished for being too efficient at using a Web browser.

squarefoot 9y ago

Same here. I'm starting to wonder if they're doing that on purpose to profile real users according to how fast they solve multiple captchas, say by measuring reaction times between every click on a "car", or to refine their anti bot algorithms by doing a deeper analysis of real user behavior. Whatever their intentions are, it's frustrating.

yoz-y 9y ago
My guess is that most of the "automatic" stuff is done using cookies and other fingerprinting techniques. In safari I hit the longer captchas far more often than in chrome, and it is quite possible that it is because of the ad blocking tech inside.