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by jorvi 33 days ago
Its only Google's ReCaptcha that sucks, with its eternal gaslighting.

"Select stairs": okay, does that mean the railing too? And probably some percentage of people clicked rails, so now I have meta it and guess if that percentage is enough to throw off my guess.

"Select motorbike": okay, but you're showing me a bicycle. I'll click "skip". FAIL. TRY AGAIN. Sighs.. okay, I guess the average person is so dim-witted they will misidentify a bicycle for a motorbike.
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brookst 33 days ago
It’s not just Google. Look at Arkose, which are not only difficult for humans to solve, they’re difficult for humans to even understand (“move the particle to the correct orbit”).
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GJim 33 days ago
> "Select stairs"

And the "correct" pictures all shows steps, not stairs.

> "Select motorbike"

And the "correct" pictures all show mopeds, not motorbikes.

Christ, don't get me stated on taxis that aren't black, fire hydrants that aren't a yellow H sign (apparently I'm supposed to look for something like a yellow painted R2D2) and WTF is a "crosswalk" (a pedestrian crossing?).

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gruez 33 days ago
>with its eternal gaslighting.

That's not gaslighting.

>And probably some percentage of people clicked rails, so now I have meta it and guess if that percentage is enough to throw off my guess.

No, there are multiple accepted answers.

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jorvi 32 days ago
> That's not gaslighting.

It is gaslighting me into thinking I gave the wrong answer.

> No, there are multiple accepted answers.

Nope, even for very simple things like "select all fire hydrants" (which are extremely obvious) or "select all images with cars" (with the images only being images completely devoid of cars or only cars, no lorries or busses), you still get a fail.

I assume you work on Captchas, which makes it extra cute you're trying to gaslight me about the built-in gaslighting :). It is really obvious too because it doesn't happen when not using a privacy browser and/or VPN.

At any rate, I hope you internalize that your work has made everyone's everyday life a little more miserable. A net negative to society.

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GJim 31 days ago
> select all fire hydrants" (which are extremely obvious)

Speak for yourself!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fire+hydrant+uk&tbs=imgo:1...

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