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> I hate captcha. I consider the premises of captcha completely broken, stupid and an insult to all the people with disabilities. But those were the worst I had

> I hate captcha. I consider the premises of captcha completely broken, stupid and an insult to all the people with disabilities. But those were the worst I had ever seen. I was asked to look on microscopic blurry pictures, obviously generated by AI, and to select only "fast cars" or "cows in their natural habitat" or "t-shirt for dogs" or "people playing soccer". I wholeheartedly agree. I think I have pretty good vision and fine cognitive abilities I'd say but over and over again I find myself unable to correctly enter the alphanumeric characters shown to me as part of those "are you human?" flows. It's very frustrating.

extr0pian 4y ago
The most obnoxious and frustrating captchas are the ones that make you count the dice and to choose the image with the dice that adds up to a specific number. You're given three images, but if you take too long solving, it gives you 10. I spent nearly 30 minutes trying to log into my Airbnb account. After having to deal with this, I said screw and closed my Airbnb account entirely (for this experience, as well as other reasons). I understand Airbnb is using a 3rd party CAPTCHA system, but trying to solve a math problem seems like something for a computer, not a human.
onetimeusename 4y ago
I don't think the captcha algorithm only wants to verify you can complete it accurately either. There are times where it seems like Google's captcha, and now CloudFlare also, have predetermined that you are a bot and they will make you complete challenges indefinitely to no avail. What's the point of a captcha if they are using some other metric anyway? Mobile nets, Tor, and proxies are pretty much unusable in certain places now.
- doodlesdev 4y ago
  > What's the point of a captcha if they are using some other metric anyway? It's all about not letting scrapers or bots know that they have been blocked, similarly to something like always failing SSH attempts after a certain amount of failures to prevent brute-force attacks. By the way I should say I hate CAPTCHA too, not defending the practice.

extr0pian 4y ago

The most obnoxious and frustrating captchas are the ones that make you count the dice and to choose the image with the dice that adds up to a specific number. You're given three images, but if you take too long solving, it gives you 10. I spent nearly 30 minutes trying to log into my Airbnb account. After having to deal with this, I said screw and closed my Airbnb account entirely (for this experience, as well as other reasons). I understand Airbnb is using a 3rd party CAPTCHA system, but trying to solve a math problem seems like something for a computer, not a human.

onetimeusename 4y ago

I don't think the captcha algorithm only wants to verify you can complete it accurately either. There are times where it seems like Google's captcha, and now CloudFlare also, have predetermined that you are a bot and they will make you complete challenges indefinitely to no avail. What's the point of a captcha if they are using some other metric anyway? Mobile nets, Tor, and proxies are pretty much unusable in certain places now.

doodlesdev 4y ago
> What's the point of a captcha if they are using some other metric anyway? It's all about not letting scrapers or bots know that they have been blocked, similarly to something like always failing SSH attempts after a certain amount of failures to prevent brute-force attacks. By the way I should say I hate CAPTCHA too, not defending the practice.