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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by withinboredom on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:05AM (#30413880)
My “favorite” ones happen where the site doesn’t pass on the language and you get a captcha in another language. So now you have to google translate and hope to language gods that the word doesn’t have multiple meanings.
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by matsemann on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:48AM (#30414720)
I've had this happen to me before [0]: I just got one "mark everything that shows bikes" with pictures of cyclists, motorbikes and cars. The translation used the norwegian word "sykler" which to me is the human powered one. But it looked like it wanted me to also select motorized ones as well. That's something that's lost in the translation.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25227518

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by kalleboo on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:36AM (#30414152)
It's not too uncommon for Japanese websites to use CAPTCHAs in hiragana, so you have to be able to type in はしらす or whatever
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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by ui4jd73bdj on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:50AM (#30414739)
Assuming the content is in Japanese this is probably the expected result though.

For international websites it would be good to follow the users chosen language. But if a website doesn't have a english version(or other alphabet based version), expecting alphabets in a captcha is not very reasonable.

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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by withinboredom on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:02AM (#30426393)
> expecting alphabets in a captcha is not very reasonable.

As an American expat living in a country that doesn't speak English by default... I'd say it's fairly reasonable. Captchas aren't the responsibility of the site owner, the captcha integration docs should explain how to pass the language through to them and should require developers to do so.

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