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by zitterbewegung 2230 days ago
I don't know about everyone else but a few months ago reCAPTCHA was getting so hard that I was routinely failing it . Now the hardness seems to be scaled down though. (they removed the addition of noise into the picture I believe).
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Same for me. I haven't been CAPTCHA'ed in a bit but the last few times were absurd. I had to solve 6-10 screens probably cause I was failing.

I was getting questions where I'm just not sure what the right answer is.

Which pictures have traffic lights? And then some pictures where I can barely make out a traffic light far away in the background. Does this count?

Which pictures have busses? Is the blurry white vehicle a large passenger van or a small bus? I don't know.

Then the most absurd one, I was asked to select tiles containing a bicycle, on a picture like this:

https://www.bikecleveland.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sha...

Does a representation of a bicycle count? I don't know.

And then when there is just a few pixels of an object going into a tile, am I supposed to select it?

I've had recaptcha just go on for minutes.

Here's a video (not mine) of the sort of thing I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGBsopLvwwo