i'd go with WXU86
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captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input
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This was for querying package delivery status. I finally got one right after many attempts. The layout, layers, colors change after every attempt so good luck on figuring out which letters count.
Shh don't tell the machines
woopsie!
Yeah but it's still obnoxious. I would bet it fucks with dyslexics as well.
Looks pretty obvious to me.
I'm more infuriated by the "abnormal activity from your IP". It seems pretty much everything is abnormal to these CDNs, including using Firefox on Linux. On the stack/exchange/ask networks I get that shit every fucking time. And no, I'm not using a VPN/Tor.
Considering the amount of traffic from LLM bots nowadays, everything human/"natural" traffic seems to be abnormal as it doesn't behave like the majority of requests
Especially when it’s a website that requires an account but they want to use SMS-based or Google Authenticator style 2FA in 2025. “Magic links” are stupid as hell too if you’re not a moron and use a decent password manager — I have no clue what random email address I generated for you since I can’t trust any company not to sell off my PII.
How hard is it to implement FIDO2 then let valid users make requests from whatever IP address they want? IP-based blocking is pretty fucking stupid if you’re already doing secure account-based authorization.
Saying all this as a heavily privacy-conscious web developer. All my traffic looks “suspicious” because how dare I not want your shit hole website to put its grubby little hands all over my IP address.
OK, that last sentence made me laugh!
With browser extensions and other programs becoming tunnels for AI scrapers, consumer IPs are becoming less and less trustworthy. I receive bots from just about every Brazilian consumer ISP. All it takes is one person on your network with a shitty app/extension installed and your home becomes indistinguishable from a bot farm. It's extra bad if you're behind CGNAT so you can't even influence your IP's reputation.
Nobody wants these CAPTCHAs, but they're still pretty effective, even with AI image interpretation. Plus, it still beats remote attestation in terms of Linux friendliness, and that's the inevitable next step in the war against scrapers.
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That hand is facing the wrong way, bot….
How so?? It looks like he's looking at the back of his hand?
No accessibility options in the captcha? I guess they don't care about people with vision disability.
Name and Shame.
The only way this is going to stop is when the organisation is either forced by legislation or embarrassed by public pressure into change.
Legislation only happens due to public pressure.
Legislation only happens due to public pressure.
Or a few wealthy people who want something bad enough to throw money at.
Actually, in neoliberalism, nearly exclusively that.
Voter Support for a Bill Has Near Zero Influence on Whether It Will Become Law
Thanks, I remember reading that a long time ago but hadn't been able to find it again since.
captcha: please click on all the stairs
stairs: literally every box
captcha: incorrect
I hate those the most. I get it wrong every single time. Well excuse me for including the rider as part of the motorcycle. I'm trying to save them from self-driving cars clipping their arm or leg on public roads.
Here's the kicker. You're not getting it wrong, you're just being forced to train AI on another one because greedy corpos gonna be greedy.
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How would they even know when they're using it to train bots?
The same image is shown to a lot of people. If a majority of people click on the same things, that is assumed to be the correct answer. And it is added to the training database. Occasionally you’ll get one that hasn’t been shown to enough people yet to know for sure. For those, they’ll usually accept any answer, even wildly incorrect ones. The thing is, you as a user never know which ones they already know and which they don’t.
Steam uses this, and I swear I've been sober and awake when attempting them, but...
If you do the first too fast, it will just show a new one and nauseum. Or that's my experience anyways.
It's ironic, because AI would have less trouble with this than humans.
It's WXU86 or I don't need this website after all.
Are you sure you're not a machine?
Id imagine it's the forward most set of characters.
Much better when they have the little "vision impaired? click here!" button :(
Bizarre grammar there: "Our firewall detects abnormal activity from your IP". It does? When?
Says the bot
I don't see the problem. It's WXU86.
Nice try LLM Diddy
chatgpt says WXIU36 but i think it is WXU86
Apparently i need to add /s
These "verify you are human" things should be made illegal at this point. They were training OCR scanners, then self-driving cars, now they're designing them to be anti-AI and we've gone full circle where captchas are on the defense.
They were always abusive and exploiting free labor, and more so now. If you dumb companies can't figure out how to filter fraudomation/AI/whatever, just go out of business.
Tech industry, stop using us.
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