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Re:Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way a... by zarzavat on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:46PM (#28102558)
The reason this happens is that captchas are not localized. Most countries don't have mail boxes, only US, Canada, Australia, NZ have them so people from outside those countries may not think to distinguish mailboxes from parking meters and will just click every square that matches their mental model of a parking meter (a pole with something on top or a big box)
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Re:Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way a... by Zababa on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:50PM (#28102575)
> Most countries don't have mail boxes (only US, Canada, Australia, NZ)

They do, they just look different. At least that's how it is in France.

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Re:Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way a... by lou1306 on Sunday August 08, 2021 @05:27AM (#28105343)
They're not the same as the classic US mailbox (). In the US you can use such a mailbox to send mail as well. In Europe you typically have private letterboxes for incoming mail and big, public post boxes for sending.
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Re:Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way a... by mkl on Sunday August 08, 2021 @06:21AM (#28105649)
> classic US mailbox ()

Missing link? In NZ, and presumably other countries, personal letterboxes in rural areas can be used to send too, which I'm guessing is the same as what you're referring to.

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Re:Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way a... by zarzavat on Sunday August 08, 2021 @09:31AM (#28106553)
Yes NZ is one of the four countries that use this style of full duplex mailbox. It hasn't caught on outside US/CA/AU/NZ, probably because (speculating here) it's not secure against theft and doubles the workload for the mailman.
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Re:Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way a... by lou1306 on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:52AM (#28114073)
Darn, the parentheses originally contained a mailbox emoji but I forgot HN does not support them.
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Re:Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way a... by dylan604 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:18PM (#28102746)
but that's not what the challenge is. it's more likely the database of training data is wrong. we've seen that to be very true from posts here on HN. some of the data was so horribly mis-identified, it's a wonder it works at all
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