Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them

someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  they wanted you to do two or three and that’s absurd

  Yea how about 20

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  • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    VPN? Google will just go in a loop with these things, so I just stopped using Google completely.

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    • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No. But it’s also not like I get 20 constantly, it was just the worst I’ve seen. Usually it’s 2 to 5, I think.

      I assume they’re just collecting data on how many of them users are willing to do.

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      • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        One time I did five in a row, because I use VPNs for everything, and realized after the 5th time that it would have been easier to just use bing so I do that first now. Google has turned into my last last resort, which is quite funny, because that’s where Bing used to be. Lmao

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Whenever I’m on a private window the captchas just keep on coming. Trying to reset your Steam password via the program will also trigger an infinite loop of captchas, you HAVE to use a browser.

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  • radivojevic@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s because you’re shady.

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    • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They knew I was committing crimes with my adblocker.

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The worst kind - crimes against profit!

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      • radivojevic@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Elon musk wants to know what the government is going to do about you not viewing ads on Xitter

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    • SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Had this when at uni, mostly due to the amount of requests coming from a single IP

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    if you have to do that many, you either have some privacy setting on or on a flagged ip given from a VPN

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    • Landsharkgun@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well yah of course I do. Why the hell is that ‘abnormal’?

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Most people don’t, most bots do. You look more like a bot, so you get extra challenges.

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      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        its abnormal to them because vpns are often also used by bad actors. your use is not abnormal but its a there are other people misusing it making it worse for everyone else.

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or google knows you will out up with it and want the most interaction it can get from you.

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      • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Google’s just lonely 🥺👉👈

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    • iiGxC@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah exactly

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I tried to order some components on Digikey a few months ago and I’m still mentally scarred. Probably did a few hundred of those things over the course of 2 weeks.

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cries in battlenet sign up process

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    • yum@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The one reason I tried to create an account and never came back

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    STOP BEING SNEAKY MICHAEL

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• Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some captchas have also just gotten obvious AI training. “Click on the living being in this image”, “Select every image of the same object as in this example image”. And the images you have to select look obviously AI generated.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Heh, I got one just the other day “Select the images containing structures built by people” lmao

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “click on all people not helping with the robot uprising”

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      • WildPalmTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Alas, I have but one up-vote. :~(

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  • aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Those one answers incorrectly.

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Im surprised that this is in the news right now. This has been acknowledged as fact for a decade or so.

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  • GhostTheToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Relevant 1053

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I still don’t get this one even after being linked to it so many times 😌🤣

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Someday you will, and you’ll be one of the lucky 10.000 that day.

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      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Things that are common knowledge for you is not common knowledge for everyone and vice versa.

        Instead of making fun of people for not knowing things, you should take the opportunity to teach so that you can get these fun moments of discovery and learning.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lots of lucky ones i guess

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At a certain point I did like 10 of them, and then ended up closing the page, cause it never let me in, all because I was on a vpn

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Funny thing is they stop asking if you do them really slowly. Almost as if to tell you, you‘re too inefficient to even be an unpaid intern or something. Anyway, if they annoy you, take your time.

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