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Captchas have gone mad. The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese, and subsequently lo

by zbuf 6y ago

Captchas have gone mad. The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese, and subsequently locked out of my account. Actually before I got locked out, I thought I would stand more chance with the alternative for the visually impaired. It jumped straight in to a fuzzy voice reading 20+ numbers at a rate of more than 1 per second. I was already behind on typing them in before it started, and I failed that too. Its as if solving an unfamiliar problem with fuzzy images/audio (that are increasingly fuzzed beyond the absurd) wasn't mad enough. But now I'm expected to be faster than a computer as well.

mercora 6y ago
maybe the algorithm wants to detect if you are as slow as a human would be solving those and you failed that ;D
soneil 6y ago
The second part of that actually seems to be more valid than you'd expect. Most users I've seen who actually use voiceover et al have TTS at a frankly astonishing rate. Although I agree in general. Plenty of capatchas have failed me. I refuse to say I've failed the capatcha. Given I'm human, and its role is to detect humans; I can't fail to be human - it can only fail to detect it.
gelert 6y ago
That sounds awful! Thankfully the most annoying things I've run into are these Americanisms like Crosswalks/different traffic lights/fire hydrants. Your post reminded me of this quite funny dunkey video on Captcha's which is the captcha taken to its logical extreme.
latexr 6y ago
> The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese Guessing you might be referring to the ones Epic uses[1], which indeed look terrible. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/EpicGamesPC/comments/ihiidp/new_mouse_captcha_is_impossible/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EpicGamesPC/comments/ihiidp/new_mou...
- leadingthenet 6y ago
  Good God, this is dystopic!
- zbuf 6y ago
  That's the one! But it wasn't Epic. Imagine being faced with this problem. It's not even visually clear what's going on in the picture. That's before you even get to solving the puzzle. Just "identify what we mean by a mouse" would be enough to be the captcha. And then -- and I don't know how everyone else's brain works -- but, being the simpleton that I am, it's a linear search checking each one against the condition. There's enough time to look at about 3 of them before the clock ran out. No, I really don't want more time, either. I'm comforted by the comments in that Reddit post. I haven't gone crazy.
- judge2020 6y ago
  Direct MP4: https://v.redd.it/cdjc79eutij51/DASH_720.mp4 https://v.redd.it/cdjc79eutij51/DASH_720.mp4
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by zbuf 6y ago

mercora 6y ago

maybe the algorithm wants to detect if you are as slow as a human would be solving those and you failed that ;D

soneil 6y ago

The second part of that actually seems to be more valid than you'd expect. Most users I've seen who actually use voiceover et al have TTS at a frankly astonishing rate. Although I agree in general. Plenty of capatchas have failed me. I refuse to say I've failed the capatcha. Given I'm human, and its role is to detect humans; I can't fail to be human - it can only fail to detect it.

gelert 6y ago

That sounds awful! Thankfully the most annoying things I've run into are these Americanisms like Crosswalks/different traffic lights/fire hydrants. Your post reminded me of this quite funny dunkey video on Captcha's which is the captcha taken to its logical extreme.

latexr 6y ago

> The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese Guessing you might be referring to the ones Epic uses[1], which indeed look terrible. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/EpicGamesPC/comments/ihiidp/new_mouse_captcha_is_impossible/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EpicGamesPC/comments/ihiidp/new_mou...

leadingthenet 6y ago
Good God, this is dystopic!
zbuf 6y ago
That's the one! But it wasn't Epic. Imagine being faced with this problem. It's not even visually clear what's going on in the picture. That's before you even get to solving the puzzle. Just "identify what we mean by a mouse" would be enough to be the captcha. And then -- and I don't know how everyone else's brain works -- but, being the simpleton that I am, it's a linear search checking each one against the condition. There's enough time to look at about 3 of them before the clock ran out. No, I really don't want more time, either. I'm comforted by the comments in that Reddit post. I haven't gone crazy.
judge2020 6y ago
Direct MP4: https://v.redd.it/cdjc79eutij51/DASH_720.mp4 https://v.redd.it/cdjc79eutij51/DASH_720.mp4
- deleted 6y ago
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