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I abandon 1 in 10 captchas recently. They're becoming so abstract and confusing, few are on sites that I critically need to persevere with. Of the ones I do, I
by buro9 2y ago
I abandon 1 in 10 captchas recently. They're becoming so abstract and confusing, few are on sites that I critically need to persevere with. Of the ones I do, I need to regenerate about a third as I'm slightly colour blind, but apparently enough to not see whatever they need me to see.
Mostly I won't sign up to a service that has a captcha unless I know in advance it's a service I need (unlikely), it's an immediate click away.
I'd rather have one time magic links and codes via text and email than a captcha.
Inconvenience that is robotic on my behalf (copy a code from here to there and treat this as part of "something you have") is much preferred over something that is demanding on my behalf (interpret this puzzle we're showing you, and pause the context you were in to now solve the puzzle).
The worst recent offenders are a grid of 9 abstract representations of something with the instruction to click the one that is correct (right way up), which is only as good as those generated images. Next up is the ones where you need to click images that are in certain "orbits" depending on what the object in orbit is. And of course the never-ending hell of solving Google Captchas where you must pick American English items and perform several leaps of "maybe the computer thinks this is a staircase or bridge?" when what you say and it thinks clearly disagreed.
Captchas are nothing but friction, they've become too hard for humans and too trivial for machines, and the result is that they are only friction to humans... the very humans you want to extract time, money and attention from.
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoYeah, because while Google deprecates and throws out everything that is considered useful, it never throws out stuff that is old, cumbersome to use and just plain outdated, like their recaptcha madness. It's all about annoying people, and they love that. Just like their search results, those are also annoying and borderline useless.
- digging 2y agoIt's not about annoying you, that's just acceptable collateral. It's about stealing from you.
- turblety 2y agoIf you live in Europe or a country that has discrimination laws against less abled users, you should raise a complaint if a website uses Captcha's. I believe captchas are unnecessary and make life more difficult for visually and motor impaired users. However, there are loads of captcha solving services you can sign up to that just solve them for you for basically free. For example, 2captcha. You install a browser extension and it just solves them for you. Still ridiculous you have to do this.
- jfdjkfdhjds 2y agolol. I did after being hellbanned by recaptcha for clearing cookies. they reply that there's nothing to be done. and you are expected to start legal action. all just so they can save 50c on bandwidth for bots against a public data website.
- voytec 2y agoSony protects itself from customers seeking warranty repairs with 5 tests in a row, some of which are unsolvable[0]. You then get "this wasn't quite right" notification after 5 tests, on logged-in account with valid credit card assigned and billed by Sony, when even one of these captcha tests was broken. After I did my best to solve 25 tests, I learned that non-warranty support form is equally customer-hostile. When I called them by phone, they told me that filling out the form is the only way to open warranty case. I went to their physical store and only after hearing magic phrase "full refund", they were interested in doing warranty repair. I went with the refund. Fuck Sony. [0] https://sysartist.com/tmp/sony_puzzle.png https://sysartist.com/tmp/sony_puzzle.png [0] https://sysartist.com/tmp/sony_puzzle2.png https://sysartist.com/tmp/sony_puzzle2.png
- hinkley 2y agoDid you do that thing where you talk just a tiny bit louder than necessary so the other customers can hear you, but not so loud you sound like Karen? Also you should report them to consumer protection watchdogs.
- voytec 2y agoNaah, store clerks nor folks answering the phones bear no responsibility for this situation. I do what I did here in such cases - present my opinion and relevant proof to potential future customers. And on broader scale than local store with few window-shoppers.
- trs-80 2y agoNot that I ever plan to buy anything from them ever again, but reminders are always helpful for everyone. :)
- elaus 2y agoInfuriating! This should absolutely be against some kind of law and I think it is - at least in my country. Avoiding legal responsibilities by putting them behind (sometimes) unsolvable challenges should be treated as not fulfilling them at all.
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- dizhn 2y agoOh yeah the viaduct vs bridge thing is infuriating. Also what exactly constitutes a traffic light? Do you include the pole? Is the square with a tiny bit of the light included? This could be a philosophical discussion.
- hinkley 2y agoAccidental public service telling you to go outside and touch a tree.
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