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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by eatbots on Friday November 27, 2020 @11:51AM (#25230264)
hCaptcha engineer here: this is an issue with Google's approach, not all visual challenges.

Our challenges have average solve accuracy within 1% when comparing users in major African countries vs US users in our user testing. Nigeria does slightly better than the US, in fact.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by silveriswrong on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:10PM (#25231681)
American here. I had to say a mailbox was a parking meter yesterday to satisfy one of these terrible things. Your measurement of success may be biased by user acceptance of incorrect information in the process.
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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by anoncake on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:14PM (#25233029)
And as a non-American, I neither know nor care what American parking meters look like in the first place. They're training their model on my model of their model
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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by eatbots on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:44PM (#25235085)
This would be a reCAPTCHA: there were no parking meter questions running on hCaptcha yesterday, from a quick check.
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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by causality0 on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:12PM (#25233011)
Considering how horrifically broken hCaptcha is, slapping your hand on the keyboard would have an equivalent solve rate. I've had hCaptchas where one of the images was virtually identical to the example and it still didn't count as one.
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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by Strom on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:25PM (#25233907)
It's very much an issue with hCaptcha as well. I have to frequently identify US parking meters that I only vaguely know from Hollywood movies.
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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by garbage098 on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:28PM (#25232296)
maybe because when i see one i dont even bother
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