This was for querying package delivery status. I finally got one right after many attempts. The layout, layers, colors change after every attempt so good luck on figuring out which letters count.
Bizarre grammar there: “Our firewall detects abnormal activity from your IP”. It does? When?
I don’t see the problem. It’s WXU86.
These “verify you are human” things should be made illegal at this point. They were training OCR scanners, then self-driving cars, now they’re designing them to be anti-AI and we’ve gone full circle where captchas are on the defense.
They were always abusive and exploiting free labor, and more so now. If you dumb companies can’t figure out how to filter fraudomation/AI/whatever, just go out of business.
Tech industry, stop using us.
Thank you!! I’ve been saying this for years. I have always said that I shouldn’t be forced to train Google’s trash software just because I want to go on some random website. It’s infuriating.
I liked it when it was used to digitise books. Beyond that… nah.
Name and Shame.
The only way this is going to stop is when the organisation is either forced by legislation or embarrassed by public pressure into change.
Legislation only happens due to public pressure.
Legislation only happens due to public pressure.
Or a few wealthy people who want something bad enough to throw money at.
Actually, in neoliberalism, nearly exclusively that.
Voter Support for a Bill Has Near Zero Influence on Whether It Will Become Law
Thanks, I remember reading that a long time ago but hadn’t been able to find it again since.
captcha: please click on all the stairs
stairs: literally every box
captcha: incorrect
I hate those the most. I get it wrong every single time. Well excuse me for including the rider as part of the motorcycle. I’m trying to save them from self-driving cars clipping their arm or leg on public roads.
How would they even know when they’re using it to train bots?
The same image is shown to a lot of people. If a majority of people click on the same things, that is assumed to be the correct answer. And it is added to the training database. Occasionally you’ll get one that hasn’t been shown to enough people yet to know for sure. For those, they’ll usually accept any answer, even wildly incorrect ones. The thing is, you as a user never know which ones they already know and which they don’t.
Here’s the kicker. You’re not getting it wrong, you’re just being forced to train AI on another one because greedy corpos gonna be greedy.
Wrong in the sense that the machine thinks it is right (or enough people disagreed with your judgement).
Its just busy work. The computer uses the time to check for extraneous packets running to your address.
Steam uses this, and I swear I’ve been sober and awake when attempting them, but…
If you do the first too fast, it will just show a new one and nauseum. Or that’s my experience anyways.
it’s really astounding EVERYONE isn’t just using hcaptcha, it’s the only one that actually fucking makes sense and works
Looks pretty obvious to me.
I’m more infuriated by the “abnormal activity from your IP”. It seems pretty much everything is abnormal to these CDNs, including using Firefox on Linux. On the stack/exchange/ask networks I get that shit every fucking time. And no, I’m not using a VPN/Tor.
Considering the amount of traffic from LLM bots nowadays, everything human/“natural” traffic seems to be abnormal as it doesn’t behave like the majority of requests
Especially when it’s a website that requires an account but they want to use SMS-based or Google Authenticator style 2FA in 2025. “Magic links” are stupid as hell too if you’re not a moron and use a decent password manager — I have no clue what random email address I generated for you since I can’t trust any company not to sell off my PII.
How hard is it to implement FIDO2 then let valid users make requests from whatever IP address they want? IP-based blocking is pretty fucking stupid if you’re already doing secure account-based authorization.
Saying all this as a heavily privacy-conscious web developer. All my traffic looks “suspicious” because how dare I not want your shit hole website to put its grubby little hands all over my IP address.
OK, that last sentence made me laugh!
I deal with this a lot since I do most of my browsing through a VPN.
As great as VPNs are, there probably are a lot of bad actors using them and sometimes I’m the next person using that IP.
With browser extensions and other programs becoming tunnels for AI scrapers, consumer IPs are becoming less and less trustworthy. I receive bots from just about every Brazilian consumer ISP. All it takes is one person on your network with a shitty app/extension installed and your home becomes indistinguishable from a bot farm. It’s extra bad if you’re behind CGNAT so you can’t even influence your IP’s reputation.
Nobody wants these CAPTCHAs, but they’re still pretty effective, even with AI image interpretation. Plus, it still beats remote attestation in terms of Linux friendliness, and that’s the inevitable next step in the war against scrapers.
the problem isn’t captcha as a concept, it’s how it’s executed
there are good captchas that aren’t obviously making you train an AI model and which seem like they’d actually be effective at identifying humans, like dragging a circle over a specific feature of an image.
It’s ironic, because AI would have less trouble with this than humans.
No accessibility options in the captcha? I guess they don’t care about people with vision disability.
FЦᄃK ƬΉΣ BᄂIПD
That would cost money silly!
what vision disability would prevent someone from seeing a monochrome image?
Blindness?
Furthermore, we kind of have rules for accessibility.
forgot about that one
Okay as stupid as this is, it’s pretty funny lol
That hand is facing the wrong way, bot….
How so?? It looks like he’s looking at the back of his hand?
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i’d go with WXU86
Shh don’t tell the machines
woopsie!
Yeah but it’s still obnoxious. I would bet it fucks with dyslexics as well.
It’s WXU86 or I don’t need this website after all.
Are you dumb?
Yes
Nice
As my professor used to say, nothing is obvious. What’s obvious to you is not to someone else and vice versa.
I have yet to meet anyone that isn’t dumb in some way or another. Not op, but yes.
chatgpt says WXIU36 but i think it is WXU86
Apparently i need to add /s
You just asked a dog to meow
it was part of the joke
Wasn’t funny.
Meow! :3
(I’m a hybrid wolf-tiger-fox. Mind, blown.)
Nice try LLM Diddy
