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Rastonbury ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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andrepd ◴[] No.42173424[source]
If you think you're failing the captchas because you're doing them wrong, think again. Google captcha intentionally fails you a couple times if they don't have enough tracking info to determine that you're legit. So you solve the captcha correctly but are still lied to that "you've failed to solve the captcha, try again".

That and the "fading images slowly to pretend like you have bad internet" thing. Disgusting behaviour

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oniony ◴[] No.42173835{3}[source]
Maybe they purposely load the images slowly to make it more expensive for the bot owners.
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1. andrepd ◴[] No.42175865{4}[source]
They don't. They load the images and then have js to fade them slooooowly. It's pernicious precisely because of that: its purpose is to annoy humans while being completely useless to thwart bots.