• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    The point of captcha is for Google to track users, not to prevent bots.

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        That’s a side project, and doesn’t explain all the services that use it without images.

        Regardless, you always have to connect to 3 different domains - typically the website itself, google.com and gstatic.com. These 3 domains allow for very accurate triangulation across the internet, and each one will fingerprint your browser. They might not know your bank account number or social media account name, but they know that someone using your browser banks with this bank and has an account on that social media, along with thousands of other data points.

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        Not anymore it ain’t. If they were to keep using it that way, bots’ scores would go down.

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    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.

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

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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.

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    So does anyone know if there is a bot I can load on my phone and PC to auto solve these and save me the annoyance?

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    I’ve always thought that CAPTCHA also checksfor time, e.g. if the correct solution is entered too fast, it will determine that you are a bot. This would mean that a fast bot would not really “win”. Not sure if this is the case or why I’ve thought it is, but it came to my mind from this 😅

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      The captcha with the checkbox tracks a lots of items like mouse movement, browsing history etc. Full list is not public but they use all their spying tools on that one

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      I’ve seen those puzzle piece captchas (common on crypto exchanges) that always say I completed the puzzle faster than 99% of users (even if I didn’t do the puzzle particularly fast). I presume those 99% are all bots attempting to hack into crypto wallets.

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        It’s probably both if we’re being honest. A lot of services definitely don’t want bots. But they also want to take as much of your personal info as possible.

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          I’m of the belief that Google themselves runs (or more likely subcontracts) many of the bots that target websites not running captcha.

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    For any podcast fans, the latest episode of Secretly Incredibly Fascinating is all about CAPTCHA and very interesting.

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      Off topic, but it may also interest people to note that their previous episode was on bras.

      I haven’t listened to either yet, but apparently I need to set aside 2 hours of my time and not just 1.

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    Plot twist: Getting it wrong proves you’re human. Now tell me which pictures have bridges.