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I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)

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405 points blindgeek | 4 comments | 18 Nov 24 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.762s | source
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Rastonbury ◴[18 Nov 24 14:46 UTC] No.42172733[source]▶
Some captchas are getting pretty discriminatory, not everyone lives in the West and can identify the objects they are asking you to. Another recent one sticks out where they asked me to pick a shape as the same number of conoids on screen. If you ask people on a street what a conoids I bet a significant amount will give you blank looks

Also at least now I know some people call those markings crosswalks

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ta1243 ◴[18 Nov 24 14:57 UTC] No.42172860[source]▶
Sorry I live in the west, what's a "crosswalk"

Did you mean to say

> not everyone lives in the USA

Other things I don't have a clue about - a fire hydrant, yellow taxis, yellow buses

(Obviously I do, because of American cultural imperialism through things like Captchas which mean the world has to understand American cultural touchstones)

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1. mapt ◴[18 Nov 24 16:06 UTC] No.42173704[source]▶
Unfortunately, even understanding these things, on a shared connection it might take you literally two or three minutes of captcha work before Google recognizes your personhood.

Am I identifying the boxes wrong? Am I doing it too fast? Where do "Stairs" begin and end? Does a motorcycle include its rider? Or is Google just fucking with me and failing me on purpose?

My workplace had a period this year where captcha was put into the cashier checkout process.

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2. danaris ◴[18 Nov 24 16:42 UTC] No.42174125[source]▶
And while it's not quite the same kind of CAPTCHA, I've not infrequently run into Cloudflare "prove you're human" screens that just...never let me through. I click the box, it loads for a second, turns into a nice checkmark, and then...reloads the "prove you're human" page. Infinite loop (as far as I can tell, anyway, not having infinite time).
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3. alwayslikethis ◴[18 Nov 24 16:58 UTC] No.42174309[source]▶
Firefox RFP? That sometimes does it
4. wing-_-nuts ◴[18 Nov 24 18:24 UTC] No.42175311[source]▶
I forget what extension was doing this for me, but I think this was down to an extension blocking autoload/play. Try disabling your extensions down to ublock and slowly adding them back.