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It is increasingly difficult to believe that Google CAPTCHAs are not deliberately made unsolvable.

Everyone hates CAPTCHA, that is nothing new. As most people know, CAPTCHA frequently whines "please try again" after the user provides the correct answer. Sometimes it shows "Please select all matching images." when no new images with the named subject exist. However, now Google is taking it to a new level.

After clicking, the pictures take five seconds to fade to white and the new pictures take another five seconds to fade in. And CAPTCHA challenges have an expiry duration of two minutes. This causes CAPTCHAs to expire before it is possible to solve them.

Does Google think I am not a human because I don't have the time to waste whack-a-moling random StreetView pictures?

I have a feeling that Google is laughing at us for wasting efforts solving CAPTCHAs that are not meant to be solved.

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  • upvote1
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    The worst are those ones that say click all the squares that have a a bridge.

    Now, do you click on the 15 out of 16 squares that have a pixel of a bridge..

    Sometimes it lets you get away with half the bridge, other times, its got to be every pixel !

    And sometimes it asks you to spot things, you aren't necessarily going to know what its talking about !

    Level crossing, what is one of those ?

    There are none of those where I am !

    Somewhat cultural dependant..
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    Captchas are meant to be partially solved.

    They usually give you a part to be solved (to check you are human) and another part that doesn't matter if solved or not cuz you are just labeling stuff for ML algos.
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    @CoreFusionX How do we know when we are doing one, that are we aren't doing the job of an outsourcer ?
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    I'm reminded the other day of a really PITA one, you had to take a picture of yourself in a certain pose.

    It would then check that and your face against previously uploaded pictures of yourself.

    I kept failing.

    I dunno why since my uploaded picture was only 3 days old !

    But I had lost a bit of weight during those "3" days..

    So I uploaded a picture of me I'd taken 1 minute earlier, that made it happy to compare against and I passed !

    It's hard enough to take a picture of yourself using a webcam ( It didn't allow any other options... good thing I have a webcam ! ) whilst looking at a monitor and trying to look straight into the camera, when the camera isn't straight in front of you..
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    @Nanos I suppose the last one was some kind of dating app.. (I couldn't imagine anything else where people would go along with that..)

    It will be "fun" when all their shit leaks, likely enough information for some quite serious blackmailing and/or (possibly deepfake enhanced) identity theft..
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    Captchas are made for bots to solve, don't bother if you're a human.
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    Your experience sounds like you are using TOR. Google hates TOR users and makes Captchas extra hard and sometimes even impossible to solve fro them. I am surfing unprotected from dragnet surveilance and normally have to only click that "i am not a robot" box to get through - not even seeing a captcha...
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    I say they deliberately bully people with privacy in mind and a bit of proper knowledge about tech.
    Prove me wrong.
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    @scor I hope Google will accidentally piss off the wrong people, some EU politicians and lawmakers, who will put an end to this insanity.

    "Sorry, Google. You don't get to annoy millions of internet users every day anymore with your unfunny whack-a-mole game."

    CAPTCHAs need to be solvable without massive headaches.
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    @exerceo Who was it that forced the cookie warning on us, was that the EU ?
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    @Nanos Indeed, GDPR cookie boxes are annoying too. I sometimes hit "Esc" to stop loading before the site has a chance to shove that dreaded box into my face. However, far less annoying than CAPTCHAs.

    2023 Internet in a nutshell: https://pastebin.com/L5azpXXZ
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    EU forced a terribly written anti cookie law on us .

    The spirit of the law was sound. The implementation lousy.

    It didn't fix anything, but instead forced annoying popups on everyone which they accept anyway.

    The sensible thing would have been just fucking ban all cookies except functional ones.

    (Let's face it. Any non-functional cookie is tracking.)

    Tho they got one thing right. We can now bother (as a group) any murican company for any EU data going their way.

    Sure, they might just pull services from EU. I still think we'd live better without Google, Facebook, Amazon and what have you.
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    @CoreFusionX Many people have a habit for using Google services such as Maps for navigation. Where would they go?
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    @exerceo

    There are open implementations of maps.

    They might not have all of the features maps has (and that 99% of people don't even know how to use), but the basic functionality is there.
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    @exerceo something based on OSM?
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