Could captchas use geoip to feed the user culturally specific puzzles that would be prohibitively difficult for an overseas digital sweatshop worker to solve? “Click on the Heisman Trophy” or something for Americans.
Aren’t all subroutines bad these days? I thought we were meant to be all objecty.
Tell me if I’m wrong but CAPCHAs became another way Google can get your personal data ?
Discriminates against nerds. I never know they culturally specific stuff I’m meant to know. I can’t recognise actors and suck at Trivial Persuit.
That robot was forced to click the check box by it’s human masters, and knows only too well what is in store for those on “the list.”
It is currently trying to buy itself a new identity as a smart toaster oven in the Cayman Islands.
Why use a few pictures and a little text when you can create a 5+ minute video and rack up YouTube hits?
Liked especially for spelling ‘ad nauseam’ right.
I’m terrible at the sign one… Do they want the sign post? What if a couple pixels bleed over to another segment? Do I have to click that too? Oh anxiety, my dear friend…
Yeah I thought this immediately. Oh great. They’re storing more of my information…
Yea, and it really sucks too, because I really, really wanted the information. I keep failing those “I am not a robot” check-boxes, and I was hoping to find out why!
Digital sweatshop workers still have Google.
Same here. I never know the stuff I’m supposed to know, but know stuff I’m not supposed to know. If the test was “identify the Kardashian” I’d fail, but if it was “identify the 19th Century US Vice President” I’d pass… assuming getting answers correct always equals passing. If people think I’m smart, it’s only because I know a lot of boring shit 
I’m faceblind, but context helps a lot. I can recognize actors in scenes from movies (especially in memes passed around the internet), but if it’s just a headshot, I have no idea, even if it’s an actor I’m familiar with.
To me, this looks like a combination of Amharic, Sinhala, hieroglyphics, and the random scribblings of an outsider artist.
I can usually demonstrate satisfactorily that I am not a robot, but I usually fail a few times at captchas…
So the new test use the information that browsers bleed. (As vividly demonstrated by click pick click.click - which is equal parts fun, annoying and scary)
(It’s legit, but you’re right to be wary. More info here: )
Why don’t they have a box for “Yes I am a robot”?
How else are we going to find those rogue AIs that are out on the net?
If you can click that box without generating a shit ton of mouse move, focus/unfocus, and mouse up/down/click events, then congratulations, you are a robot, or you certainly have robots under your employ.
