The simplicity of it is logic defying. It used to be that you had to find crosswalks or move puzzle pieces or type blurred letters and numbers, but NOW all the sudden I can just click a box and HEY!, I’m human?

That’s hardly the Turing Test I’d expected.

  • WugmeisterEnglish
    33•3 months ago

    Nah that’s different as well. What they are filtering out is

    • a mouse teleporting to the exact center of the checkbox
    • a mouse smoothly gliding in a straight line to the center if the checkbook
    • a mouse traveling in a straight line to the center of the checkbook with some momentary stutters to add noise

    Et cetera. Humans are much noiser than anything a python script will spit out. Of course there are ways to get around this, like recording and reenacting a human mouse movement, but the point of any capcha system is to make it significantly more difficult to bot, not impossible.

    • @[email protected]
      4•3 months ago

      No OP was right. If the reCaptcha is on the same page as a login, and I use my password manager to fill the fields, I fail the reCaptcha almost every time. I have to manually paste in the user name and password separately to slow things down to act more human…