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AIBU re sodding captchas? I AM NOT A ROBOT

34 replies

ChinkChink · 15/11/2017 22:25

Click the squares containing a street sign. Does that include the tiny top left hand corner of a street sign? Does a nameplate on the front of a house count as a street sign? The nameplate of a street? Or does it just mean traffic street signs? Is the pole a street sign stands on counted as part of the street sign? Is a traffic light a street sign?

Click the squares containing a car. Does that include a car size van? A four by four? A truck?

Click the squares containing a road. Does that include that inch wide strip of tarmac next to the wide grass verge you're showing me?

Perhaps, after all, I am a robot. Beep.

OP posts:
Bambamber · 15/11/2017 22:27

I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I've been caught out several times and thought maybe it was just me!

Or when it does the stupid squiggly writing that I genuinely can't read

ChickenlessHead · 15/11/2017 22:28

I fucking hate them. They’re so vague, ‘click on the squares with a shop front’. Well does that mean the whole of the building or just the shop bit. What about the sign next to it with the shops name on it? Does that count?

I’ve given up on them so many times.

MinervaSaidThar · 15/11/2017 22:33

Haha! I think they are getting easier now though, lately you just have to click the circle and it starts loading.

NeedMoreSleepOrSugar · 15/11/2017 22:55

Oh these are so annoying. I don't think I've ever "passed" them on the first try. Pain in the arse!

DramaAlpaca · 15/11/2017 22:57

Same here, I'm so glad it's not just me! It always takes me a few goes to get them.

Hercules12 · 15/11/2017 23:02

My heart sinks every time I see these. I can't do then. The letters ones are awful.

Sheitgeist · 15/11/2017 23:03

Haha, I did the road sign one just yesterday! I also wasn't sure whether to include the post or not (I didn't; I passed).
My favourite one asked me to select Japanese food! Beyond a couple of obvious sushi type things I hadn't a clue!

valuerangeweetabixandmilk · 15/11/2017 23:04

Haha. Brilliant.

steff13 · 15/11/2017 23:14

I had one that said to select modes of transportation. One of the choices was a hot air balloon way up in the corner of one of the boxes. Is that a mode of transportation? I mean you wouldn't take it to work or on vacation or to the grocery store.

Spudlet · 15/11/2017 23:16

Yep, pretty sure I’m a robot based on those. They give me the rage! 🤬

ChinkChink · 15/11/2017 23:18

steff13

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SharkiraSharkira · 15/11/2017 23:19

Yanbu op these things are so bloody annoying, especially when it's those letter ones and I have an iPhone that bloody insists on capitalising the first letter every.fucking.time so of course it fails. Arrrrgggg! Angry

Mugmugmugmug · 15/11/2017 23:21

I can't do these either but re the word ones, did you know when you do them you're helping with the digitisation of books? I found that quite interesting!

FadedRed · 15/11/2017 23:22

YANBU. It's discrimination against robots. It is, in fact, Androidist. Should be illegal.
Yours sincerely,
3CPO

wasonthelist · 15/11/2017 23:46

YANBU op they are worse than self service checkouts

Needadvicetoleave · 16/11/2017 00:59

YANBU! Fucking hate it.

Broken11Girl · 16/11/2017 01:03

YANBU I hate the bastard things Angry can't do the letters ones.

MimsyFluff · 16/11/2017 01:08

Today I tried signing up for a website and apparently I'm not a human anymore. It wanted an email address and a password, nothing else so I'm slightly concerned I've watched to much sci-fi on TV and it's changed me Confused forever.

OlennasWimple · 16/11/2017 01:13

YANBU!! This annoys me so much, my heart sinks when the Recapcha thing comes up on screen

Tip for the squiggly writing is that you can usually click a button (tiny, speaker thing) to hear the words / letters / numbers aloud.

pennysnow · 16/11/2017 01:14

YANBU. I loathe them too, and have given up on them a few times... After 10-12 attempts.

scaryteacher · 16/11/2017 02:13

Agreed. All I wanted to do was track a bloody parcel.

JeanSeberg · 16/11/2017 02:23

you're helping with the digitisation of books

I don't understand ...?

Vitalogy · 16/11/2017 02:45

I agree, they're taking the piss.

IHaveACuntingPlan · 16/11/2017 02:52

🤖

Ilovetolurk · 16/11/2017 06:11

We have very old explorer at work. As soon as that capture starts to scroll it’s game over it will just scroll all day