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Sometimes I end up failing them deliberately. I can't boycott them because they're often in the way of important sites. So my small, practically invisible prote
by dunnevens 5y ago
Sometimes I end up failing them deliberately. I can't boycott them because they're often in the way of important sites. So my small, practically invisible protest is to never click more than 3 times. If you want me to pick out all the bicycles, you better have 3 or less. I'm only clicking 3.
I fully understand this isn't going to have any effect. Maybe if a million of us were doing it, it would. But it still makes me feel better.
- TechBro8615 5y agoTrue civil disobedience would be clicking the non-bikes.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoBack when captchas were about optical character recognition, it was obvious which words came from actual books. Plenty of people would input offensive words instead of the correct answer. I hope it had an effect but it probably didn't.
- revolvingocelot 5y agoSomeone who isn't me hung around on 4chan a lot back in the day. Indeed, there was an effort across the boards to disseminate heuristics to determine which one was the already-known word and which one was to be parsed by humans. The agreed-upon procedure was identify the latter as "penis".
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> The agreed-upon procedure was identify the latter as "penis". I remember far worse...
- mrkramer 5y agoSo you want us to DDoS the captcha networks? Hmm is that even legal? But it would be somewhat cool if millions of people starting failing captcha on purpose it would be something like decentralized volunteer mass ddos attack.
- dunnevens 5y agoWouldn't be a DDoS. At least, I don't think it would. It would just be simply people refusing to work on captchas more than a certain amount. Basically, if you make me hunt for bikes and there's more than 3 of them, then I'm not doing it. More akin to a deliberate labor slowdown than a DDoS, or even a strike.
- mrkramer 5y agoHow do you know how many bikes are out there in total? And what is a purpose of a deliberate labor slowdown if you are going to get more captcha work if you do not finish your current one. I mentioned DDOS because every time you fail to satisfy captcha criteria website requests a new batch of captcha for you; in that way you would be constantly requesting a new captcha if you would be deliberately failing your current one or as you described imposing a "hunt limit" upon yourself.
- dunnevens 5y agoGood point on the DDOS. Didn't think of it that way.