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Google reCAPTCHA is the absolute worst. It makes me solve several puzzles very often, usually when I use a mobile network and I’m not logged in with any Google
by outime 8y ago
Google reCAPTCHA is the absolute worst. It makes me solve several puzzles very often, usually when I use a mobile network and I’m not logged in with any Google account. It’s so frustrating that most of the times I find a reCAPTCHA I give up before trying and just go elsewhere e.g. when a site uses reCAPTCHA for sign up or after the first failed login, I’ll most likely skip if I don’t absolutely need to access such website.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who’s getting tired!
- johnisgood 8y agoThe worst part is that quite a huge percentage of the Internet relies on it! Soon we won't be able to use any sites whatsoever because of it. I don't like where this is going. :/
- userbinator 8y agoIndeed, I definitely am not happy with how much control Google has over the Internet in general. Everything from how they present and rank search results, Google Analytics scripts everywhere, the sometimes vaguely-political messages on their homepage, the ostensibly-anti-bot checks including CAPTCHAs and just plain banning you if you want to do more "advanced" searches (like the ones Fravia would've taught...), etc.
- pmoriarty 8y agoThere's other (mysterious to me) stuff that sites call to Google for, apart from captchas and analytics. As a uMatrix (and former NoScript) user, I've long noticed that many sites make calls to ajax.googleapis.com for I have no idea what. Quite often the site will refuse to work without that. To be fair, a lot of sites make use of javascript from a lot of other sites as well: cloudfront and amazon are common.
- johnisgood 8y agoYeah, or Akamai.
- chocolatkey 8y agoAs a uMatrix user as well, I have manually whitelisted ajax.googleapis.com. It is actually not tracking scripts, but hosted libs like jQuery, which many many sites use and will not function without. See here: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/ https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/
- MASM32_COM 8y agothese are the kind of sites i just dump and move on. if they dont want me to go to thier site i can get the info i want somewhere else, with a tiny bit of patience. if someone whants to torpedo thier own sites with mandatory java, or other such security compromises, sianara dude
- ozim 8y agoBad guys also are getting tired and they start to hack more accounts of normal users because now those normal user accounts are worth more.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoThis is one of the major pains of building a platform: you also have the limit the damage that a "trusted" user can do, like if a moderator were to get hacked by username/password reuse. I learned this the hard way on a forum I built and ended up painstakingly building a feature that lists all moderator actions and a "Reverse" button next to them. ...Among many other similar features. It's funny to think back on the day I decided to build a forum: "How hard could it be?"
- dreamcompiler 8y agoI can't use Google search directly any more without being presented with a never-ending series of these things. Thus I use DuckDuckGo, and if it returns inadequate results I rerun it with "!g" at the end which sends it to Google. That seems to work without CAPTCHAs.
- beatgammit 8y agoOr use !sp to get StartPage results, which is basically anonymized Google results.
- nacs 8y ago!s also works for Startpage
- tokai 8y agoIn my experience if you just press next captcha without solving them, a bunch of times, it will stop with those and give you one of the "pick all storefronts" with multiple pictures, that can actually be solved. Too me it seems that if you take your time and try to answer them properly they will try to get you annotate as much data as possible. While if just click though it fast it'll let you pass.
- ACow_Adonis 8y agoI got the 'pick all the storefronts' one just this week. Was mildly infuriating because what constitutes a storefront seems pretty culture specific, and I got shown a bunch of buildings, where half of them i had to go 'well, that MIGHT be a storefront, it looks kind of commercial, but it doesn't appear to have much explicit signage...god dammit..."
- chrisparton1991 8y agoreCAPTCHA pushed me over to DuckDuckGo. I use a VPN, and a fair number of my Google searches are blocked by a reCAPTCHA with 5 or more challenges. Now, I use DDG and fall back to Google search with !g if I can't find what I'm looking for.
- nvrspyx 8y agoYou can fall back to Startpage with !s, which should give you the same results as Google.
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- ufo 8y agoThe most annoying thing for me is that I often encounter them in various websites for the Brazilian government, when I want to get somd official documents.
- henriquemaia 8y agoThis is how things are done at the Federal University I'm currently attending. I have filed a complaint against the university on the grounds that they're using Federal resources (the students' labor, whose place there is being paid by the government) to enrich a private, international corporation (Google). This is wrong on so many levels. There's no decision yet, and the process is still running.
- computerex 8y agoIt's using you as human labor to label data. That's why you have to solve multiple. It's annoying but greatly helps accelerate research and development since data is king.
- corey_moncure 8y agoIf this is so, how does it know when I've mis-labeled?
- CamperBob2 8y agoBy showing the same images to thousands of other people and going with the consensus, I imagine. For any given label, if you pick a photo that few other people picked, it presumably considers that to be "wrong."
- captainbland 8y agoI think it works by labelling something like half the images, but doesn't tell you which is which. At least that's how the older text recaptcha stuff worked - you could easily identify the pre-labelled text by the kind of distortions they used and just enter any old gibberish for the rest. So actually the training stuff is extra work beyond just classifying you as human
- hanging 8y agoAnd would it be possible to sabotage via a botnet that submits all-incorrect responses?
- unclebucknasty 8y ago>It's using you as human labor to label data. That's why you have to solve multiple. That's actually not cool: recruiting your time under false pretenses to create value for themselves.
- SpelingBeeChamp 8y agoreCAPTCHA helps Google to digitize books that are too illegible to be OCR'd. Do you appreciate Google Books? It's not as bad as you're making it out to be.
- tigershark 8y agoI am starting to think that I may be a machine given how many time I fail that stupid test... The traffic light is absolutely the worse. Should I select the box that includes the vertical yellow pole? And what about the horizontal one between two opposite traffic lights? And if just a small fraction of the border of the traffic light is in a box what should I do? I can’t wait for a captcha solver as a service honestly...
- trumped 8y agothe word combination "fuck Google" has become very common in my thoughts when I encounter Google's reCAPTCHA... Google is breaking the web in many ways and this is one of them.
- fxfan 8y agoits because google no longer just tests if you are a human- they also train their model- try this- and I've tried it successfully far too many times- Enter your first captcha wrong and then half the times, on the second one it won't say you did first wrong. (it's because first was a learning set). do the second one right and then you're good. I deliberately mark the exact opposite of right boxes in the first captcha at times, takes me the same time but at least I can say I delayed skynet.
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- SpelingBeeChamp 8y agoYou are training it to better translate scanned books for Google Books. That's where the samples come from. They are words from actual books that Google isn't sure about. Stop messing up Google Books, please.
- icebraining 8y agoAs far as I know, reCaptcha stopped being used for books a long time ago. It's now used to improve Google's mapping data instead.
- ldng 8y agoIt's to improve Google Car
- anewguy9000 8y agoindeed. it needs to bloody stop. its no different than a whites only washroom in 1929. im not logged into google tracking. so im not allowed to participant in a huge swath of the internet unless i spent 15 minutes a day training AI. when will UX be taken seriously? when will users (aka humans) be respected?
- novaleaf 8y agoalso is blocked in China, so all Chinese visitors fail the captcha and can't proceed.