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Zebrastreifen ("zebra stripes") is the German colloquial name. You will hardly find anybody (at least in my parts) calling them the proper official "Fußgängerüb

Zebrastreifen ("zebra stripes") is the German colloquial name. You will hardly find anybody (at least in my parts) calling them the proper official "Fußgängerüberweg" (pedestrian overpath/pedestrian crossing). Even most police will call them Zebrastreifen except sometimes when writing reports or in court. I failed a few recaptchas like that too, tho not due to language barrier, but because I didn't pick some things that didn't look like crossings at all. I am convinced that some of those supposed markings were not crossings at all but things that somehow got into google's labeling db as outright false positives.

grishka 6y ago
Зебра (zebra) in Russian too, especially if you're referring to the road markings themselves. I find recaptchas downright humiliating. I think twice before completing one — is whatever it grants access to worth it?
- andai 6y ago
  If you use a browser which blocks fingerprinting, CAPTCHA may fail you 3-4 times even if you give correct answers. CAPTCHA was giving me anger management issues last few weeks until I realized I can just open same URL in another browser and then most of the time it doesn't even ask for CAPTCHA because the fingerprinting is so accurate it knows who I am (or it lets me in after the first round).
  - grishka 6y ago
    I mean... add to that the fact that my ISP literally uses a single public IP address for all its subscribers, and then it's no wonder I hate this stuff. Googling anything in a private window is a gamble. This and Cloudflare. Cloudflare is the worst.
  - Normille 6y ago
    Or just leave that website. Why should you be subjected to torment for the privilege of boosting some website's visitor numbers? Imagine if, every time you went to the supermarket or the library, there was some goon on the door who wouldn't let you in unless you could do ten press-ups and answer half a dozen general knowledge questions. They'd soon go out of business --as all websites which treat their visitors with such contempt deserve to do.
    - saurik 6y ago
      Sadly, while it is extremely rare that a supermarket offers a product differentiated on anything but location, the same is not true of websites: not going through the CAPTCHA means I don't get to see the content I wanted or needed to see; I can't just drive five minutes further to get the same content from someone without a CAPTCHA. This thereby isn't a functional market and so market economics can't help us: this requires regulation.
      - WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
        This should be a canonized answer to that question
      - Normille 6y ago
        There's very little content on the Internet that isn't available from a variety of different sources. It's very rare to find something completely original and unique to only one site.
  - dmurray 6y ago
    That's the absolute best outcome for Google. Not that they get a couple more data points for self-driving cars, or make the website owner happy they protected the site from bots, but that you switched from Firefox to Chrome.
  - imtringued 6y ago
    Google's captcha basically does this: Check if you are logged into google. (pretty much unavoidable in chrome). If you have a google account then they know your phone number is verified and getting a phone number usually requires government mandated identification. Otherwise they use fingerprinting to identify you and correlate it with activity on google, youtube, google ads, etc. If those two things fail then Google will give you an endless stream of captchas even if you answer all of them correctly. I often had to complete 20 captchas only for it to tell me "sorry". There was maybe a 1/3 chance that completing all 20 captchas let me through. Meanwhile on a different browser where I'm logged into google I get through on first attempt. Google captchas are just a data mining operation. They have nothing to do with proving whether you are human. After all, if they have enough data about you they often give you the option to skip the captcha altogether. The captcha is a psychological attack on you to convince you to give Google more data.
dxdm 6y ago
A pedestrian overpath is above the road level and better translated as "Fußgängerbrücke".

grishka 6y ago

Зебра (zebra) in Russian too, especially if you're referring to the road markings themselves. I find recaptchas downright humiliating. I think twice before completing one — is whatever it grants access to worth it?

andai 6y ago
If you use a browser which blocks fingerprinting, CAPTCHA may fail you 3-4 times even if you give correct answers. CAPTCHA was giving me anger management issues last few weeks until I realized I can just open same URL in another browser and then most of the time it doesn't even ask for CAPTCHA because the fingerprinting is so accurate it knows who I am (or it lets me in after the first round).
- grishka 6y ago
  I mean... add to that the fact that my ISP literally uses a single public IP address for all its subscribers, and then it's no wonder I hate this stuff. Googling anything in a private window is a gamble. This and Cloudflare. Cloudflare is the worst.
- Normille 6y ago
  Or just leave that website. Why should you be subjected to torment for the privilege of boosting some website's visitor numbers? Imagine if, every time you went to the supermarket or the library, there was some goon on the door who wouldn't let you in unless you could do ten press-ups and answer half a dozen general knowledge questions. They'd soon go out of business --as all websites which treat their visitors with such contempt deserve to do.
  - saurik 6y ago
    Sadly, while it is extremely rare that a supermarket offers a product differentiated on anything but location, the same is not true of websites: not going through the CAPTCHA means I don't get to see the content I wanted or needed to see; I can't just drive five minutes further to get the same content from someone without a CAPTCHA. This thereby isn't a functional market and so market economics can't help us: this requires regulation.
    - WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
      This should be a canonized answer to that question
    - Normille 6y ago
      There's very little content on the Internet that isn't available from a variety of different sources. It's very rare to find something completely original and unique to only one site.
- dmurray 6y ago
  That's the absolute best outcome for Google. Not that they get a couple more data points for self-driving cars, or make the website owner happy they protected the site from bots, but that you switched from Firefox to Chrome.
- imtringued 6y ago
  Google's captcha basically does this: Check if you are logged into google. (pretty much unavoidable in chrome). If you have a google account then they know your phone number is verified and getting a phone number usually requires government mandated identification. Otherwise they use fingerprinting to identify you and correlate it with activity on google, youtube, google ads, etc. If those two things fail then Google will give you an endless stream of captchas even if you answer all of them correctly. I often had to complete 20 captchas only for it to tell me "sorry". There was maybe a 1/3 chance that completing all 20 captchas let me through. Meanwhile on a different browser where I'm logged into google I get through on first attempt. Google captchas are just a data mining operation. They have nothing to do with proving whether you are human. After all, if they have enough data about you they often give you the option to skip the captcha altogether. The captcha is a psychological attack on you to convince you to give Google more data.

dxdm 6y ago

A pedestrian overpath is above the road level and better translated as "Fußgängerbrücke".