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These are the robots:
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I hate when some computer has the gall to tell me that it knows better than I do what a “bridge” is.
A HIGHWAY OVERPASS IS NOT A BRIDGE.
I’ve also been rejected for clicking on every tile containing asphalt when asked to identify “crosswalks” because jaywalking is an invention of the motor lobby.
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I was asked to identify which fuzzy blob was a penguin recently and its the first time I wasn’t angry at a captcha in years
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Back in the days of usenet, it wouldn’t have occured to me I’d ever need to prove my humanity before partaking of the internet… but then, that was a pretty strict noncommercial zone for a long time. I suppose the overhead given to spammers and scammers and nigerian princes is considered an inevitable cost of doing business these days… but I can’t help but think we’re doing it wrong.
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Apropos of that; the phrase “tragedy of the commons” is a useful verification test.
If the subject thinks that the tragedy is what happened to the commons they are probably human; if they think that what happened to the commons is what averted the tragedy you’ve got a moderate-confidence economist on your hands.
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I’ve gotten requests to verify my humanity after conducting google searches. Granted, they were 20 pages deep, and piped through google translate, but still…
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I got this one the other day. It wanted me to click the riding lawnmower. Sorry, but that’s NOT a tractor.
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Verifying my humanity offline is easy as long as I don’t wear an animal costume. Then, it’s iffy.
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I just had to do one of those identify-the-cars captchas to unsubscribe from my local library’s mailing list. Is that even legal under CAN-SPAM?
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