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This is not my pic because I forgot to screenshot it when I did it. Microsoft has the hardest captcha I have ever had to complete. This one looks easier but I had a similar one that on my phone the images were too small, not recognizable and were more abstract looking shapes. It was so hard, I failed like 8 times (there were several 'rounds') and it almost made me second guess whether I might actually be a robot lol. Luckily, there was an audio version where you have to pick from a number of melody recordings and choose the one that was a pattern. Anyone else have trouble with this?

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[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago
[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I know why they do it, just the fact that they seem to be the only ones with a difficult one like this. Some people might not be able to. I could barely see it.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

It was already a problem before. Now it is much worse.

The actual issue is that the entire system relies on obscurity

[-] hactar42@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

I recently set up a new GitHub account and it had the same crap. And you have to get 3 in a row correct. I got so frustrated and I was cursing enough that my wife came into my office to make sure I was okay.

[-] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I forget where I heard that these are actually used to help train AI, but I don’t doubt they are somehow.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

It's interesting in how it combines three different tests - visualization of both the targets and the field to move them in, comprehension of what the task is, and correct movement. I had to take a second to understand the whole point myself.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I liked the captcha for the PlayStation forums (hard math problems)

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Are...are the hackers actually deterred by these...things? Are they not accessing the data in some other way?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

it's not meant to deter hackers, but spam bots and web cralwers, and such like. Possibly also meant to stop people hitting the service as a way of breaking the service.

but mostly they want to know the person looking at it is a human so they can feed it advertisements.

worse than Roblox?

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