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Not saying these are good, but it's been ~10 years and I still have no idea what I'm supposed to click when Google says "click the traffic lights." Just the lig

Not saying these are good, but it's been ~10 years and I still have no idea what I'm supposed to click when Google says "click the traffic lights." Just the light sections? What about the edge that takes up 10% of the adjoining box? What about the back or side of a different traffic light? I've tried them all, and my success rate doesn't noticeably change.

pcurve 3y ago
I think that’s all accounted for.
- mypastself 3y ago
  I always get it wrong on the first try, so I guess they're accounting for me being a robot.
  - pcurve 3y ago
    It's so random. Sometimes I click submit thinking it would fail because I forgot to select a metal pole of a traffic light, or confuse bike for a motorcycle.
shawabawa3 3y ago
Honestly I don't think it matters which boxes you click I think it's based on mouse movements, time delay between clicks, and browser fingerprinting tricks that detect headless browsers
- kevincox 3y ago
  In pretty sure it does matter. Click things that are clearly wrong and it will very rarely accept it. However I think it is quite flexible. That box that is almost completely traffic light probably needs to be clicked, but as long as you pick at least one of those two that contain a corner you will likely pass. I would guess that there is some sort of accuracy score that is mixed in with the bot fingerprinting score.
no_time 3y ago
It's mostly trained on the answer of other humans. The best advice is literally "just be yourself, be human." I had some fun poisoning the well on the older text based captchas by answering the first word correctly and putting "penis" where the last word would go. It always accepted it for some reason.
- gberger 3y ago
  The reason is that those captchas were helping to OCR-transcribe books. The first word would be known to the system and serve as the actual verification, and the second word would be unknown and serve as you performing free MTurk work.
fnomnom 3y ago
it gets worse when you factor in translation problems. lets take google/recaptcha/hcaptcha image captchas. english: "click on the images with bikes" this could mean motorbikes or bicycles in english. in german it says "klicken sie die bilder mit den fahrrädern". fahrrad meaning bicycle exklusively! a motorbike would be "motorrad". then the images will show no bicycles so you skip - wrong - so you click on the motorbikes - wrong - oh there is one image that shows a (german) "motoroller" (a scooter) maybe they mean that? click - correct this goes on an on and on. they have so many problems with their translations its infurating. i stopped filling them out when not absolutely necessary
- polytely 3y ago
  wonder how this affects the models that are trained on the data generated by these capcha's? will german motor cyclists be less safe because of this
addandsubtract 3y ago
The worst part about those captchas is that you have to click each box individually. So unless you're on a touch screen or mouse, clicking each box that contains (part of) the object, takes ages. At least let my human hands drag-select the boxes, ffs.

pcurve 3y ago

I think that’s all accounted for.

mypastself 3y ago
I always get it wrong on the first try, so I guess they're accounting for me being a robot.
- pcurve 3y ago
  It's so random. Sometimes I click submit thinking it would fail because I forgot to select a metal pole of a traffic light, or confuse bike for a motorcycle.

shawabawa3 3y ago

Honestly I don't think it matters which boxes you click I think it's based on mouse movements, time delay between clicks, and browser fingerprinting tricks that detect headless browsers

kevincox 3y ago
In pretty sure it does matter. Click things that are clearly wrong and it will very rarely accept it. However I think it is quite flexible. That box that is almost completely traffic light probably needs to be clicked, but as long as you pick at least one of those two that contain a corner you will likely pass. I would guess that there is some sort of accuracy score that is mixed in with the bot fingerprinting score.

no_time 3y ago

It's mostly trained on the answer of other humans. The best advice is literally "just be yourself, be human." I had some fun poisoning the well on the older text based captchas by answering the first word correctly and putting "penis" where the last word would go. It always accepted it for some reason.

gberger 3y ago
The reason is that those captchas were helping to OCR-transcribe books. The first word would be known to the system and serve as the actual verification, and the second word would be unknown and serve as you performing free MTurk work.

fnomnom 3y ago

it gets worse when you factor in translation problems. lets take google/recaptcha/hcaptcha image captchas. english: "click on the images with bikes" this could mean motorbikes or bicycles in english. in german it says "klicken sie die bilder mit den fahrrädern". fahrrad meaning bicycle exklusively! a motorbike would be "motorrad". then the images will show no bicycles so you skip - wrong - so you click on the motorbikes - wrong - oh there is one image that shows a (german) "motoroller" (a scooter) maybe they mean that? click - correct this goes on an on and on. they have so many problems with their translations its infurating. i stopped filling them out when not absolutely necessary

polytely 3y ago
wonder how this affects the models that are trained on the data generated by these capcha's? will german motor cyclists be less safe because of this

addandsubtract 3y ago

The worst part about those captchas is that you have to click each box individually. So unless you're on a touch screen or mouse, clicking each box that contains (part of) the object, takes ages. At least let my human hands drag-select the boxes, ffs.