@FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works
Post #2382181
2026-05-09 13:19 UTC
IDK but recapatch hasn’t worked for me on desktop. Since like… forever.
What happens is… I click the squares that contains the stairs. Or motorcycles, traffic lights, buses, w/e. Try to guess whether a sq counts if there are like 2 pixels of railing. Is railing part of the stairs? IDK. Doesn’t matter tho. Google rejects anything I try and displays another captcha. Same result with that one. Fucking endlessly. It will NEVER let me past. I’ve tried some dozens in a row.
I think that is because G can’t ID me to a particular human. So it does not matter how I answer them. “You shall not pass.” G had a patent on “endless rejection” techniques. Instead of an outright block, it presents you with infinite unsolvable captchas.
Someone once analyzed web based recapatcha. Their conclusion was, G isn’t trying to figure out whether you are human. It’s trying to figure out WHICH human you are. It’s identity resolution, not bot detection. If it can’t get a high enough confidence estimate, you get denied. Sometimes with infinite captchas.
Yay. Let’s make this asshole company the gatekeeper to the fucking internet.
Replies (2)
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@LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 2026-05-09 14:11
Have you considered the possibility you are a robot? /s There are other captcha providers. If only companies would start using them instead of Google.
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@zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.ml 2026-05-09 15:01
Someone once analyzed web based recapatcha. Their conclusion was, G isn’t trying to figure out whether you are human. It’s trying to figure out WHICH human you are. It’s identity resolution, not bot detection. If it can’t get a high enough confidence estimate, you get denied. Sometimes with infinite captchas. I’d be interested in reading/watching if you can recall the source.