I give up after three tries, which means half the time now when I'm confronted with the captcha, I end up giving up and going to DDG instead.
Whatever method I'm using, isn't working. So I'm not acting like a human.
How do you act like a human when you are using FF with a proxy and as a result you are suffering innumerable Google search captcha challenges?
What's your Google captcha algorithm when confronted with odd shapes?
How do you act like a human when you are using FF with a proxy and as a result you are suffering innumerable Google search captcha challenges?
What's your Google captcha algorithm when confronted with odd shapes?
I run FF Google searches on a proxy for the obvious privacy-from-google reasons which used to work 100% of the time without captcha challenges.
What do YOU do when confronted with odd shapes like motorcycles & bicycles? Do you click only on the main three squares? Or do you hit everything?
Same with the crosswalks which may protrude into a corner of a near square.
Do you click on every mirror and helmet of the bike riders?
Do you click on every square touched by a crosswalk?
Do you click on every square with streetlights when they're distant?
What's your Google captcha algorithm when confronted with odd shapes?
How do you act like a human when you are using FF with a proxy and as a result you are suffering innumerable Google search captcha challenges?
What's your Google captcha algorithm when confronted with odd shapes?
What's your Google captcha algorithm when confronted with odd shapes?Don't you have an option to request another set of images? I know you do with the 4 jumbled letter guesses.
I run FF Google searches on a proxy for the obvious privacy-from-google reasons which used to work 100% of the time without captcha challenges.
Now, it works only about 80% of the time without captcha challenges.
And, increasingly with FF, I have to suffer well more than 3 challenges.
When I get the Google search captcha challenge, sometimes it asks for fire hydrants, which are pretty easy so it usually works within three tries if
the next two tries are also simple things like chimneys and or cars/buses.
But often it's odd shaped things like bicycles, motorcycles, crosswalks, stairs and even streetlights seem to defy my ability to satisfy captcha.
I give up after three tries, which means half the time now when I'm confronted with the captcha, I end up giving up and going to DDG instead.
But my main question here is that I happen to be human and yet Google can't figure that out in three tries (which is all I have the patience for).
What do YOU do when confronted with odd shapes like motorcycles & bicycles? Do you click only on the main three squares? Or do you hit everything?
Same with the crosswalks which may protrude into a corner of a near square.
Do you click on every mirror and helmet of the bike riders?
Do you click on every square touched by a crosswalk?
Do you click on every square with streetlights when they're distant?
Whatever method I'm using, isn't working. So I'm not acting like a human.
How do you act like a human when you are using FF with a proxy and as a result you are suffering innumerable Google search captcha challenges?
I don't use Google or a proxy, but, probably due to my unusual
Firefox configuration, websites like Ebay and PayPal like to force
me through the same thing from time to time, also using Google
Captchas.
Sometimes the Ebay ones are just endless, I think
something is broken there which causes it to repeat captchas
forever. Online shopping really makes me dream of physical stores
sometimes.
What do YOU do when confronted with odd shapes like motorcycles & bicycles? >> Do you click only on the main three squares? Or do you hit everything?
My rule is to click on any square with a bit of the described
object (including attached parts) visible in any part of that
square. That's probably harder for a computer to do, if not
necessarily a normal human reaction to the prompt.
But for traffic lights I only pick squares where the lights
themselves are visible, not the poles.
The one that gets me though are the stairs - should I include the
hand rail as part of the stairs, or just the steps themselves? The
latter seems to work, but the question still haunts me.
Same with the crosswalks which may protrude into a corner of a near square. >>
Do you click on every mirror and helmet of the bike riders?
Do you click on every square touched by a crosswalk?
Do you click on every square with streetlights when they're distant?
Yes to all of the above, and although it does often hit me with two
captchas in a row, I usually get through (except those endless ones
on Ebay where I think it's a different problem because the whole
page reloads).
The audio captcha for blind people is another option, if you have
audio working in Firefox (I don't anymore because I don't use
PulseAudio on Linux and run Mozilla's prebuilt executables which
are compiled without ALSA support, but if you're using Windows
then you probably do).
Part of acting human, is to appear fallible. Taking too long
to decide. Ticking and unticking a box because you aren't sure.
If Google wants, they can just make you endure three trials,
no matter how you answer :-) There is that.
I've always wondered about that. What if a crosswalk protrudes only an
eighth inch into the next square? Would a (real) human click on it?
How does a (real) human handle it when the bicycle has a sixteenth of an
inch of the wheel in the adjacent square? I need to act like a (real) human so that's kind of useful to know what you (presumably a real human) does.
There are sometimes things which could be traffic lights but they're not facing the user. How does a (real) human handle that? I need to know.
Is the handrail part of the stairs?
And what if the corner of a step protrudes into the next square.
I too wondered about the helmet of the rider. Does a (real) human consider the helmet to be part of the bike? Now I know the answer is yes.
We all need to train ourselves so we appear to be (real) humans to google.
On 2023-05-20, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
What do YOU do when confronted with odd shapes like motorcycles & bicycles? >>> Do you click only on the main three squares? Or do you hit everything?
My rule is to click on any square with a bit of the described
object (including attached parts) visible in any part of that
square. That's probably harder for a computer to do, if not
necessarily a normal human reaction to the prompt.
I've always wondered about that. What if a crosswalk protrudes only an
eighth inch into the next square? Would a (real) human click on it?
How does a (real) human handle it when the bicycle has a sixteenth of an
inch of the wheel in the adjacent square? I need to act like a (real) human so that's kind of useful to know what you (presumably a real human) does.
What do you do, if you want to look like a (real) human to Google captcha when the fire street signs have a pole that protrudes into another square?
But for traffic lights I only pick squares where the lights
themselves are visible, not the poles.
There are sometimes things which could be traffic lights but they're not facing the user. How does a (real) human handle that? I need to know.
The one that gets me though are the stairs - should I include the
hand rail as part of the stairs, or just the steps themselves? The
latter seems to work, but the question still haunts me.
Yup. Is the handrail part of the stairs? And what if the corner of a step protrudes into the next square. How do you (real) human's handle that one?
Same with the crosswalks which may protrude into a corner of a near square. >>>
Do you click on every mirror and helmet of the bike riders?
Do you click on every square touched by a crosswalk?
Do you click on every square with streetlights when they're distant?
Yes to all of the above, and although it does often hit me with two
captchas in a row, I usually get through (except those endless ones
on Ebay where I think it's a different problem because the whole
page reloads).
I too wondered about the helmet of the rider. Does a (real) human consider the helmet to be part of the bike? Now I know the answer is yes.
The audio captcha for blind people is another option, if you have
audio working in Firefox (I don't anymore because I don't use
PulseAudio on Linux and run Mozilla's prebuilt executables which
are compiled without ALSA support, but if you're using Windows
then you probably do).
I didn't think of the audio captcha myself. Don't think I've seen it.
Do the (real) humans often switch to that? If so, that's what I want.
What's your Google captcha algorithm when confronted with odd shapes?
...
In article <u49h5r$37kkg$1@novabbs.org>, vader wrote...
What's your Google captcha algorithm when confronted with odd shapes?
...
If we are taking it on trust that only human intelligence can solve one of these "spot the hydrant" (etc) puzzles, does it not follow that there must be a
rooom full of humans somewhere setting them?
F-Up set to acf.
(Seems to me the one with the closest link of the 3 to the topic.)
On 2023-05-20 08:43, B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson wrote:
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F-Up set to acf.
(Seems to me the one with the closest link of the 3 to the topic.)
Please don't. There are always people that don't read the whatever group
you set follow up to. I don't read alt.comp.freeware, for instance.
On 2023-05-21 13:05, Philip Herlihy wrote:
In article <u49h5r$37kkg$1@novabbs.org>, vader wrote...
What's your Google captcha algorithm when confronted with odd shapes?
...
If we are taking it on trust that only human intelligence can solve one of these "spot the hydrant" (etc) puzzles, does it not follow that there must be a
rooom full of humans somewhere setting them?
Or not.
They just collect the stats for each set of pictures, and mark those
that most people click as valid.
And they can also use that information to train their ai to recognize
shapes.
In article <acdpjjxqp6.ln2@Telcontar.valinor>, Carlos E.R. wrote...
On 2023-05-21 13:05, Philip Herlihy wrote:
In article <u49h5r$37kkg$1@novabbs.org>, vader wrote...
What's your Google captcha algorithm when confronted with odd shapes?
...
If we are taking it on trust that only human intelligence can solve one of >>> these "spot the hydrant" (etc) puzzles, does it not follow that there must be a
rooom full of humans somewhere setting them?
Or not.
They just collect the stats for each set of pictures, and mark those
that most people click as valid.
And they can also use that information to train their ai to recognize
shapes.
So how do they introduce a new image set? (Perhaps that's why you sometimes have to respond to two sets, even though you were pretty confident the first time?)
And they can also use that information to train their ai to recognize
shapes.
So how do they introduce a new image set? (Perhaps that's why you sometimes >> have to respond to two sets, even though you were pretty confident the first >> time?)
Right, they can just put it to people as the first set.
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