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Supposedly reCAPTCHA is easier if google thinks you're human. http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-just-got-easier-but-only-if.html http:
by IvyMike 13y ago
Supposedly reCAPTCHA is easier if google thinks you're human.
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-just-got-easier-but-only-if.html http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-j...
I guess google thinks you are a robot.
I dunno, in my experience I usually don't second-guess google. Sorry to break it to you.
- letstryagain 13y agoI can confirm that my reCAPTCHAs are a LOT easier today than they were a year ago. Usually I get pics of numbers from Street View or something like that.
- throwaway2048 13y agoIf it knows you are human why are you still forced to solve it?
- natch 13y agoThinks, not knows. Probability estimates should not be confused with certainty.
- throwaway2048 13y agothat dosent change the equation really, if you serve an OCR bot a weak CAPTCHA (and it will be an OCR bot as its capable of interacting with recaptcha to begin with) , its as ineffective as not having a captcha anyways, so what purpose is it serving.
- IvyMike 13y agoIf you really want to get around CAPTCHA you can pay someone on the other side of the planet to solve them for a nickle or whatever. So it can never be a perfect system. But killing high-speed bots does seem achievable, and I'll bet that's all they really care about.
- IvyMike 13y agoTo add a bit of seriousness back into this: Google is being coy about how they guess at humanness/robotness, but IP address is a likely factor. Maybe the OP is coming from an IP address or block that has a lot of robot activity on it.
- oakwhiz 13y agoI am fairly certain that one of the factors is whether or not you are signed into a Google account.
- sireat 13y agoThis explains why I sometimes get really easy reCAPTCHAs sometimes ridiculously hard ones. It seems to depend on IP and computer that I am using.