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Ask HN: Does anyone else consistently fail ReCaptchas?
My vision is fine. I'm young. I know what a traffic light, shop front and bicycle look like. Or I thought I did. But literally on a daily basis Google tells me I don't.
For some reason my browser continually trips ReCaptcha - it's probably Ghostery, uBlock, etc. - and I have to waste my time being told by some crappy system I can't identify simple objects. After one or two rounds it bars me from the audio challenge too.
If I didn't have almost perfect vision and a lot of patience I'd be barred from large parts of the Internet, so it surprises me somone with an audio and visual impairment hasn't taken Google to court over this.
Is it just me who consistently fails ReCaptchas?
- devereaux 8y agoYes, me too. The only possible explanation is that we are bots.
- luckylion 8y agoWhat I find most annoying that I'm never sure what to click in those "click all traffic lights" and similar puzzles. If there's a tiny part of a traffic light in a neighboring frame, does that count, should I highlight it? I've done both and failed, and I've done both and succeeded, I haven't figured out a pattern yet.