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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.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 3 days ago

It's WXU86 or I don't need this website after all.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 7 points 2 days ago

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[–] occultist8128@infosec.pub 133 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 65 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Shh don't tell the machines

[–] occultist8128@infosec.pub 10 points 4 days ago
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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 days ago (4 children)

captcha: please click on all the stairs

stairs: literally every box

captcha: incorrect

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Its just busy work. The computer uses the time to check for extraneous packets running to your address.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Steam uses this, and I swear I've been sober and awake when attempting them, but...

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

If you do the first too fast, it will just show a new one and nauseum. Or that's my experience anyways.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

it's really astounding EVERYONE isn't just using hcaptcha, it's the only one that actually fucking makes sense and works

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 102 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago

OK, that last sentence made me laugh!

[–] elvith@feddit.org 26 points 4 days ago

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

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

the problem isn't captcha as a concept, it's how it's executed

there are good captchas that aren't obviously making you train an AI model and which seem like they'd actually be effective at identifying humans, like dragging a circle over a specific feature of an image.

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[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 64 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

I liked it when it was used to digitise books. Beyond that... nah.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you!! I’ve been saying this for years. I have always said that I shouldn’t be forced to train Google’s trash software just because I want to go on some random website. It’s infuriating.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 38 points 4 days ago (7 children)

No accessibility options in the captcha? I guess they don't care about people with vision disability.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

That would cost money silly!

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

FЦᄃK ƬΉΣ BᄂIПD

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Bizarre grammar there: "Our firewall detects abnormal activity from your IP". It does? When?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 days ago

It's ironic, because AI would have less trouble with this than humans.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Legislation only happens due to public pressure.

Or a few wealthy people who want something bad enough to throw money at.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I don't see the problem. It's WXU86.

[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 3 days ago

Says the bot

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 18 points 4 days ago

Are you sure you're not a machine?

[–] troed@fedia.io 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

It doesn't look like anything to me.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 9 points 4 days ago

Much better when they have the little "vision impaired? click here!" button :(

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Nice try LLM Diddy

[–] Zomg@piefed.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Id imagine it's the forward most set of characters.

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