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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    CAPTCHAs have been broken for quite a while now.

    Google’s reCAPTCHA in particular is terrible and I fail it about half the time trying to guess what it thinks counts as part of a bicycle or not.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I always found it kind of ironic that the tool used to prevent robot traffic, CAPTCHA, is also used as a data source train robots.

      I don’t want you getting through this lock, so I’m going to sit you down and meticulously teach you how to get through this lock…

    • ugjka@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They are broken because AI is better at solving these capthcas than humans. They are only stopping those spammers who can’t afford a gpu to break these catchas

    • JWBananas@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      Have you de-Googled or something? They only really nail you when you don’t have a signed-in Google account with real-world web usage, particularly if your connection originates from a flagged IP.

      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Oh yes, how dare I visit a website without letting Google track me. Better block the user with a fake test in the name of security.

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        1 year ago

        Some VPNs will definitely trigger reCaptcha, even if signed on to Google. I just have to hop over to another IP and suddenly everything is fine again.

      • veroxii@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        I’ve noticed I get the stupid recaptha way more since I swapped to Firefox. Even though I’m logged in to a Google account.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
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        1 year ago

        I get it a lot when I’m using our work VPN (which shows up as an AWS IP address). I guess if you’re using a VPN or a less reputable ISP you’ll probably get stung more often.