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

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405 points blindgeek | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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dizhn ◴[18 Nov 24 15:23 UTC] No.42173178[source]▶
I routinely have problems with closeup images. To this day I don't know how much of the object I should be selecting? Also what is a traffic light? Is the pole part of it or not? Motorcycles seem to be hard too.

Once it showed me a picture of steps nothing but steps. I think I marked like 15 boxes.

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Wowfunhappy ◴[18 Nov 24 15:41 UTC] No.42173398[source]▶
> To this day I don't know how much of the object I should be selecting? Also what is a traffic light? Is the pole part of it or not? Motorcycles seem to be hard too.

I have always assumed this was purposefully ambiguous. The right answer is whatever a majority of humans will answer when presented with the same picture.

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1. sml156 ◴[18 Nov 24 17:42 UTC] No.42174822{3}[source]▶
I don't think the majority of people on earth would base all their captchas on things only found in America
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2. layer8 ◴[18 Nov 24 22:14 UTC] No.42177701[source]▶
The majority of people will still cluster around the same best guesses, and that’s all that matters to the algorithm.

Yes, it’s annoying, but that doesn’t matter to the algorithm.