Nowadays there are some really annoying CAPTCHAs out there, such as:
“Click over the figures that are upwards/downwards” and various rotated bears
“Rotate the figure until it matches the given orientation” and a finger pointing to some random direction, as well as rotation buttons that don’t work the way you would mathematically expect them to work
“Select all the images with a bicycle until there are none left” and the images take centuries to fade away after you click them
“Select all the squares containing a bus” and there are squares with the very corner of the bus that make you wonder if they are considered as part of “squares containing A bus”
“Fit the puzzle piece”, although this is the least annoying one
In summary, the CAPTCHAs seemingly are becoming less of a “prove you’re not a robot” and more of an forced IQ test. I can see the day when CAPTCHAs will ask you to write down a Laplacian transform for the solution f(x) to the differential equation governing the motion of a mass considering the resistance of air and aerodynamics, or write down a detailed solution to the P versus NP problem.
Sony has the most annoying ones, which are designed to prevent people from submitting tickets. They’ll show you like 10 dice, and ask what they add up to. They make you solve like 16 of them before they let you continue. Shit should be illegal.
No, CAPTCHAs these days track mouse movements and other factors. They make you second guess if something should be included because, as a human, that’s going to be something you do. And it’ll be obvious from both that hesitation and your squishy, inaccurate mouse movements that you’re a human.
They can’t without the given permission from the browser to do so. While they can indeed track the mouse, when they try to access mobile motion sensors (I’m considering a CAPTCHA inside a webpage being accessed through a mobile browser such as Firefox mobile or Chrome for Android), they need to use an HTML5 API that, in turn, will ask the user for permission, something like “This site wants to use sensor motion data. Allow or block?”
Nowadays there are some really annoying CAPTCHAs out there, such as:
In summary, the CAPTCHAs seemingly are becoming less of a “prove you’re not a robot” and more of an forced IQ test. I can see the day when CAPTCHAs will ask you to write down a Laplacian transform for the solution f(x) to the differential equation governing the motion of a mass considering the resistance of air and aerodynamics, or write down a detailed solution to the P versus NP problem.
It’s when they make you do like 20 of them. Bitch you already stopped the DDOS let me see my balance fuck.
Sony has the most annoying ones, which are designed to prevent people from submitting tickets. They’ll show you like 10 dice, and ask what they add up to. They make you solve like 16 of them before they let you continue. Shit should be illegal.
The math ones are ridiculous.
Guess what computers are inherently great at?
Math.
Because they’re not there to stop computers, they’re there to stop people from getting legitimate support from a company that owes it to them.
Those “select tiles with a bicycle” are us training image recognition programs.
No, CAPTCHAs these days track mouse movements and other factors. They make you second guess if something should be included because, as a human, that’s going to be something you do. And it’ll be obvious from both that hesitation and your squishy, inaccurate mouse movements that you’re a human.
Can’t track mouse movements on mobile though
You used to could, on Blackberry at least.
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They can’t without the given permission from the browser to do so. While they can indeed track the mouse, when they try to access mobile motion sensors (I’m considering a CAPTCHA inside a webpage being accessed through a mobile browser such as Firefox mobile or Chrome for Android), they need to use an HTML5 API that, in turn, will ask the user for permission, something like “This site wants to use sensor motion data. Allow or block?”
at that point i just assume im the one they are keeping out and just close the tab
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I hate the puzzle piece ones, they never actually load the site for me.
They’ll make you listen to Vogon poetry. If your head explodes, you’re not a bot.