• MTLion3@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s so obvious it’s a scam too because of how vague some of the “challenges” are. “Click all the squares that contain a bike” and then you do it in every conceivable way AND IT STILL WONT ACCEPT YOUR SUBMISSION. Stupid

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      I’ve had a Captcha that required an image like this one to be classified as a bike

      Ceci n’est pas un vélo

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      I have a suspicion that it might depend on a few factors that might be related to Google’s ability to track, such as the browsers you use and whether you’re on VPN. I saw a post on Lemmy the other day (can’t remember where) that they suspect captcha is more annoying on Firefox, whereas fine with Chrominum-based browsers, esp Google Chrome. I think I sometimes experienced this as well, but I didn’t keep track.

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        Yep when using a VPN I get way more captchas on Google web searches (regardless of browser).

        It makes it really annoying to search on Google, to the point I want to turn off my VPN or use other search engines.

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          It’s also likely that it is because they are seeing a large number of searches from one IP (the VPN exit server), and that can look like bots.

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          For search engines, I’ve never used it but there’s whoogle that’s supposed to be proxy for google search.

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            Here’s the thing about all search engines that aren’t Google (including the ones “based” on Google results). They all suck for regional results in many non-Latin languages.

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      I had one today where it was click on all the squares that contain a bus. One square very clearly contained a truck, not a bus. When I didn’t select that square, it told me I was wrong.

      They’re so infuriating.

    • bleistift2@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I’ve never in my life failed a captcha. Maybe you’re just bad at identifying bikes?

    • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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      Very simple. You solve it too fast, it thinks you’re a bot and you fail it. Click slowly and you will pass it every time.