hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet

Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by dsabanin on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:53PM (#25213525)

Recently Google's captcha asked me to mark all the traffic meters on the photos, and amongst the choices was a photo of a mailbox. It didn't let me through until I marked it as a meter as well.

Good luck to whatever self driving car they are training using this data.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by dheera on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:30PM (#25213949)

Maybe would be kind of fun if we, the users, could form a coalition to deliberately mislabel photos on captures on a mass scale.

It just seems there lacks a way to make it happen beyond the hacker community.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by DharmaPolice on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:20PM (#25214420)

4chan users already used to do this for the old text based ReCaptcha. The idea was everyone put in a particular racial slur (they're not very imaginative) for the second word. I doubt it had any impact.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by therein on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:34PM (#25296967)

If I remember correctly, it did have some impact.

I believe at one point you could use that racial slur in place of the second word in the captcha and it would accept it.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by hedora on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:41PM (#25215101)

I do this. I just click random boxes and it usually lets me through. It’s more clicks, but not necessarily more time.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by 1123581321 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:12PM (#25213744)

I would venture that the repeated attempts from multiple users to not mark the mailbox will help with that.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by dmurray on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:59PM (#25213597)

What's a traffic meter? Maybe it's just important that the car doesn't drive into it.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by therein on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:04PM (#25213654)

I think he meant a parking meter.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by dsabanin on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:03PM (#25215275)

yes, thank you!

:facepalm:

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by riversflow on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:29PM (#25216575)

Well that might be my handiwork! About half the time I have to do an reCaptcha i mislabel one of the photos. Because I’m not being paid, I’m being held hostage to an automated system and I will rebel.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by sroussey on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:34PM (#25213994)

That literally happened to me 5min ago!

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