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OT (slightly): The Roblox captcha system is INSANE. I witnessed one of my kids' friends attempting to solve one and it was hilariously difficult. It's a 2x3

OT (slightly): The Roblox captcha system is INSANE. I witnessed one of my kids' friends attempting to solve one and it was hilariously difficult. It's a 2x3 grid of floating 3D objects and you need to click the square where two of the constantly moving object collide. The login/account creation process must be attacked frequently and intensely to warrant making this captcha tool so difficult. I'll never bitch about "finding all the bicycles" again.

sriram_sun 5y ago
Does that mean all the other captcha systems are "broken"?
- kevingadd 5y ago
  They may have just decided to NIH, there are other large-scale games like Genshin Impact that use much simpler captcha systems despite the amount of money at stake. Perhaps the off-the-shelf captchas people are using are too expensive for Roblox's tastes.
- idealmedtech 5y ago
  More likely that Roblox didn't want the Google dependency, they seem to love building things in house.
  - MBCook 5y ago
    Not only that but I imagine at Roblox’s scale they’d have to pay Google an absolute fortune for the service.
- josefresco 5y ago
  From my experience, as a web guy who implements CAPTCHA at least once a week for a client being spammed - yes it's broken. reCAPTCHA rarely slows down bots, it only stops the lowest tech/efforts. v1/v2/v3 doesn't matter, I implement them all and clients still get spammed.
- novok 5y ago
  Games and consoles have this security issue that I call the "bored teenager effect". They get pummeled security & cheat wise way more than is warranted for their market size, and their user base is way more technically sophisticated and more willing to put up with BS to play their games. As a result, the average multiplayer game has better security than the typical bank, because thousands of bored and emotionally immature teenagers are trying some pretty sophisticated crap to just get more points in a fucking online game. So totally not surprised that roblox's captcha is extra hard.
  - canadianfella 5y ago
    Do you have any idea of how big Roblox is? There are few, if any, games that are more popular.
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sriram_sun 5y ago

Does that mean all the other captcha systems are "broken"?

kevingadd 5y ago
They may have just decided to NIH, there are other large-scale games like Genshin Impact that use much simpler captcha systems despite the amount of money at stake. Perhaps the off-the-shelf captchas people are using are too expensive for Roblox's tastes.
idealmedtech 5y ago
More likely that Roblox didn't want the Google dependency, they seem to love building things in house.
- MBCook 5y ago
  Not only that but I imagine at Roblox’s scale they’d have to pay Google an absolute fortune for the service.
josefresco 5y ago
From my experience, as a web guy who implements CAPTCHA at least once a week for a client being spammed - yes it's broken. reCAPTCHA rarely slows down bots, it only stops the lowest tech/efforts. v1/v2/v3 doesn't matter, I implement them all and clients still get spammed.
novok 5y ago
Games and consoles have this security issue that I call the "bored teenager effect". They get pummeled security & cheat wise way more than is warranted for their market size, and their user base is way more technically sophisticated and more willing to put up with BS to play their games. As a result, the average multiplayer game has better security than the typical bank, because thousands of bored and emotionally immature teenagers are trying some pretty sophisticated crap to just get more points in a fucking online game. So totally not surprised that roblox's captcha is extra hard.
- canadianfella 5y ago
  Do you have any idea of how big Roblox is? There are few, if any, games that are more popular.

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