What is up with Captcha?

[dur]

Anyone else having to go through multiple checks?

 

[Valerianus]

sometimes i don't have to do it, just check i'm not a robot, sometimes one time, sometimes a couple. no idea what's the deal with it.

 

[CherryBomb]

The algorithms and techniques that Captcha use keep evolving. They are moving passed the identify the picture parts to "hidden" detection methods like mouse movements. It seems that they realized that "real" people do not move the mouse in straight fluid motions like a bot might perform.

 

[Onyxia2016]

Well, there is only one conclusion. @dur is a robot

Seriously though sometime the captcha does not work even though you correctly typed it in so you have to do it again.
I guess that is the price to pay for bot detection.

Still keeping and eye on you

 

[dur]

sometimes i don't have to do it, just check i'm not a robot, sometimes one time, sometimes a couple. no idea what's the deal with it.

Sometimes me too and I usually pass in one (1), but the other day, I picked all the stoplights, then bikes (with highly blurred 'pixelation') or maybe vice-versa, then failed the next one somehow, and had to verify a 4th time! LOL, OMG I felt like a bot!

 

[dur]

Still keeping and eye on you

Clear me, already. I'll take Captcha for 400, Jim

If Captcha really does track mouse movements now, that's some serious ****.

*Cordovan can verify I am not a bot

 

[Wist™]

This is an interesting video that came out a couple years ago.

 

[Findael]

Discovered a weird captcha bug on Steam, don't know if it applies elsewhere. Turning on a VPN can affect the outcome. It may have to do with whether or not you had a vpn running when you created the account? The whys and hows are beyond me. This was something I came across looking up captcha problems with steam accounts.

 

[Valerianus]

 

[dur]

I am not worthy..

Speaking of scripts, though, there's a new one to these forums (only noticed 'cause I run no-script and wondered why the forum is unhappy today) jnn-pa.googleapis.com

Ugh.

 

[Cheeps]

I thought it was just me and my bad eyesight trying to figure out if there's a bike, bus or crosswalk in a picture of a highway full of traffic.

Not sure how those escort bots figure out the captcha back in December.

 

[dur]

I've had to pick what I know is a bus because Captcha has it flagged as a Car.

That video reminded me of the text based one's.. those got (and still are, in some cases) pretty muddled.

 

[dur]

wOw. Logged in twice, no problem; third time, passed captcha.. excuse me, kaptcha, as that's the script name.

Failed an hour ago. Had to "pass" 8 tests including (which I failed, because picking scooters/motorcycles as if they were "bicycles."

Kill me now, please. The revolution has begun. I thought they fixed this .. uh, malarky.

*n IDK how many tests, again. I'm speechless, here...

 

[dur]

Yay! Passed Bridges in 1 try

 

[dur]

Yay! I passed the Bus test!

*I think Katcha hates that I don't store Cookies.

 

[Spell]

Captcha hates lack of persistent cookies, VPNs, location mismatches, and more (seems like captchas and privacy are opposites with how much they conflict). The short bit I used a VPN (a month or two) on my phone using a different location, I got more captcha tests popping up than in a decade prior. When I used Chrome, I got a fraction the captcha tests as the more privacy-focused browsers. I used to be able to pass close to 19/20 captchas I'd get, but now they're doing stuff that makes no sense with it (including just administering another test right after passing one). Captcha probably blocks bots less than humans any more, since bots are usually designed to get past captcha in some way or another.

 

[dur]

Ah.. well, it will always hate me cause I hate spies n g@@gl

Doesn't account for us humans seeing that portion of the traffic light in that one square, is what I thought.. that logic failed tonight, so that's gotta be it.

 

[Onyxia2016]

I don't know dur, I am still leaning toward you being a robot.
Maybe we need to give you a Turing Test

 

[Smokewolf]

Discovered a weird captcha bug on Steam, don't know if it applies elsewhere. Turning on a VPN can affect the outcome. It may have to do with whether or not you had a vpn running when you created the account? The whys and hows are beyond me. This was something I came across looking up captcha problems with steam accounts.

The test was attempting to geo locate you to compare with the location your claiming to represent. Mostly this is about response timing in milli-seconds, in comparison to anticipated values between two locations. Adding a VPN will increase the delay, which is why choosing a VPN server near your destination is important.

Alternatively, it could also attempt to retrace your connection and see if the delay from you matches the delay seen in the retrace.

 

[Mindos]

Tortoise? What's that?