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Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by paulcarroty on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:25PM (#20295934)
Also Google punishes Firefox users by forcing them to click on pictures 2-3 times more than Chrome.
Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by 1_player on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:29PM (#20295974)
Same with Brave: I'm logged in into a gmail account and a custom domain hosted on gmail, yet every time there's a reCAPTCHA widget on the site, I have to do it 2 or 3 times before I'm let in.

One trick that seems to help fool that awful piece of tech: click slowly on the images, as if you were thinking a second or two before each click. Maybe click a wrong image and deselect it again. In other words, behave like a slow human, and it seems to work better than if I solve it as quickly as possible.

Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by ballenf on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:25PM (#20296555)
I also have the feeling that making mistakes — selecting an image that looks like a traffic light but isn’t — sometimes results in faster admittance than being surgically accurate.

Again, being slower and more error prone seems to be rewarded.

Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by incompatible on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:58PM (#20299266)
I don't even know what the right answer is in a lot of cases. There's a bit of the traffic light casing at the edge of a square, does that count as a traffic light, or only the lamp itself?
Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by qtplatypus on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:57AM (#20302099)
The right answer isn't what it is looking for. Its more looking for the way you try and work out the answer.
Re:Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side by washadjeffmad on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:35PM (#20298437)
Which I intentionally and repeatedly fail anyway, because I'm not training Google's AI so they can sell it for use in drone strikes.

If this reduces the world Google allows me to access, it doesn't diminish mine because of it.