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Speaking of, has anyone else noticed that captchas (especially recaptcha) have gotten a lot harder over the last year?
by dmazin 14y ago
Speaking of, has anyone else noticed that captchas (especially recaptcha) have gotten a lot harder over the last year?
- nlh 14y agoI have indeed. Anyone have more details? At one point I recall (re)CAPTCHAs being about helping OCR slightly less-readable words from book scans. But they were actual words. They seem to be gibberish words now.
- SolarNet 14y agoMaybe they ran out of non-gibberish readable things to OCR?
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- malandrew 14y agoI've noticed that they occasionally have characters that are available in unicode, but are not part of the characters that are available on a 105-key keyboard with or without the shift key. THe most common one I see is the integral symbol that used to be used as an S. On very rare occasions I see characters like: ¡™£¢∞§¶•ªº–≠œ∑®†¥øπ«åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æΩ≈ç√∫˜µ≤≥÷⁄€‹›fifl‡°·‚—±Œ„´‰ˇÁ¨ˆØ∏»ÅÍÎÏ˝ÓÔÒÚƸ˛Ç◊ı˜Â¯˘¿
- codesuela 14y agoThose are the ones googles OCR couldn't decipher. Only one word (the random characters with a asymmetric background and maybe a line through them) matter. Once you know that you stop typing the part that doesn't matter. I usually just type asd (actual captcha)