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While proving you are a human becomes more and more difficult. And I am really tired of having to recognize cars, boats and bikes for every website I visit.
by aphroz 5y ago
While proving you are a human becomes more and more difficult. And I am really tired of having to recognize cars, boats and bikes for every website I visit.
- valvar 5y agoIs the main purpose of these really to prove that you are human, or to improve their ML datasets?
- prirai 5y agoYeah, its actually for their dataset.
- Razengan 5y agoWhichever saves/makes them more money.
- rcxdude 5y agoNeither. Nowadays it is only one part of a large scoring system using a bunch of device and user fingerprinting, and it's primary use seems to be tarpitting bots who score low on the other metrics (as well as any users unfortunate or privacy-conscious enough to be misidentified as a bot).
- 411111111111111 5y agoI'm pretty sure that's sufficiently shown by the fact that captcha v3 doesn't even have any inputs.
- taneq 5y agoYou'd think that with the number of 'click all squares with traffic lights' type challenges we've had to endure, Waymo would be running entirely on camera feeds by now.
- aphroz 5y agoI take these tests very seriously, I don't want a car to crashes because I missed a traffic light.
- thesehands 5y agosystems also need noisy labels..
- tsimionescu 5y agoI intentionally mislabel one or two every time. It's not my job and not my responsibility to help someone recognize these, and they shouldn't be relying on internet strangers correctly labeling stuff for the security of our road systems.
- thatguy0900 5y agoI remember when Google was using it to digitize and publish freely available books and it felt like a useful, clever thing to do. Now it just feels like being a unpaid worker.
- loupgarou21 5y agoI remember when google was doing that and there were people exploiting it for both fun and profit. On the "fun" side, a bunch of 4chaners were intentionally poisoning the results with swear words.
- dimitrios1 5y agoIt's exactly how I feel whenever I am forced to use a self checkout line.
- thatguy0900 5y agoI've seen alot of comments along the lines that if you're not stealing when using self checkout lanes then you're being scammed. I'm a little swayed by the opinion, to be honest. It didn't used to be that there was only two lanes (out of 12) open during prime time shopping in all grocery stores, but it is now. Grocery stores found out they could just offload that part of the job onto customers for free.
- foobar33333 5y agoThese days most sites do it by requiring a phone number. Since most countries require ID for a phone number and functional burner numbers are really hard to get, the system works well.
- kuroguro 5y ago> functional burner numbers are really hard to get For SMS verification at least there are quite a few sites dedicated to verify you for a few cents. AFAIK they buy real prepaid sim cards and allow reuse by different customers on different sites.
- jannes 5y agoBut then anyone can reset your account’s password by using the same service?
- kuroguro 5y agoTechnically yes, practically there should be no way to know which account has which phone number. The bigger problem is if the site requires you to re-verify your phone for whatever reason (for ex. paypal does when you access it from a strange IP or sth) and the number you used may not be available anymore.
- 123jay7 5y agoIf you are using a shady sms service as 2WA for your bank account, then you have bigger fish to fry.
- Siira 5y ago> works well For everyone except the user who now has no privacy, is trivially hacked by SMS interception, can’t create multiple accounts (e.g., to segregate their activities on a chat platform), ... .
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- varispeed 5y ago> And I am really tired of having to recognize cars, boats and bikes for every website I visit. And you are performing work without being compensated for it. In many countries this seems to be illegal - you have to pay at least a minimum wage.
- rdtwo 5y agoI hate hcapcha. A bot can solve it in 2-3 seconds it takes me 5-6 i can’t keep up
- dane-pgp 5y agoI wonder how such countries' laws define "work". If my interactions with a website are used in an A/B test, am I an unpaid tester? If I sit in a restaurant in winter and the thermal radiation of my body saves them some of their heating costs, is that work that I should be paid for?
- fomine3 5y agoI'm curious why they collect fire hydrants. Is it important for self driving?