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After a few minutes of trying, I've found I may be a robot. I failed the reCaptcha exam. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/lemmyshitpost

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Captchas are a complete and utter scam to gather ML-data.

[–] eager_eagle 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

lmao scam? This is intended purpose and open knowledge. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it a scam.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Still kinda a scam cause theyre dogshit at their sold for purpose, and profit off it

[–] Draconic_NEO 2 points 1 year ago

Ironically they're a cybercriminal's best friend since if they layer multiple of them together on your site they can annoy online enforcers (and in the case of scrapers, keep out) who might otherwise shut the site down.

They don't work so well Against targeted attacks but many searches when finding infringing sites are just searches for sites that are infringing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Anyone reading this, ALWAYS DO THE AUDIO ACCESSIBILITY ONE

It’s SO much easier and never has you do like fifty.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recaptcha is the most shit service on the web.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Have you heard the Yandex Captcha?

Audio link, if you don't see the audio above.

The ultimate troll.

[–] theangryseal 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounded like a call center in India and I had to listen to it like 5 times.

Is that real?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes.

I only heard "5" in there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You see this all the time on a VPN or Tor. Which is super hypocritical of them because the whole goddamn point of a CAPTCHA is to determine whether you're a human or not when it is uncertain. IP banning you from a captcha of all things because an IP is sending "automated queries" defeats the whole point, the site itself is literally using your service so it can selectively let humans in while blocking automated traffic. If they wanted to ban certain IPs, they can do that directly.

[+] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the very fact that they IP ban you from their Captcha service proves that Google's intention was never to actually provide effective Captcha services and "make the web more secure" or any of their marketing BS. Their intention is to have a plausible front for datamining you, nothing more. They directly claim that the reason they ban you is because your automated queries supposely harm their servers (not even some excuse like "oh we're doing this to protect the poor itty bitty website that use our Captcha and therefore we have a sorn duty to protect," they straight up admit it's about them), but think about it, who exactly can DDOS Google? You would especially not be able to do it from a VPN or a Tor node, those are super bandwidth limited, especially the latter. And if you were trying to DDOS Google, you'd be flooding them with inbound UDP data, not loading their captcha service, so banning you from that is only because many automated queries dilute the data they're trying to collect on humans. Also, in almost all of those cases, you're IP banned from the captcha, but not google.com or their ads, wouldn't those be a higher priority if your goal really was to protect yourself? Also also, pretty ironic that Google has a problem with your automated queries when their entire business is automated queries of the entire web, and has been caught ignoring robots.txt rules multiple times.

[–] nei7jc 7 points 1 year ago

The same thing happened to me. Over and over. Turns out I actually remembered my password and didn't have to reset it.

[–] TotalFat 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Failed your VK test?

Pray for a quick and painless retirement!

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 year ago

My mother? I'll tell you about my mother...

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 year ago

Have you tried scanning for viruses? There was an email in my spam folder that said I had 28 viruses and if I installed their antivirus software, that would take care of it and now I don't have any v

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe the real robot was the AI we trained along the way!