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🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

‘Yes, I am a human’: bot detection is no longer working – and just wait until AI agents come along

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🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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Designed in the early 2000s to stop rogue bots, we could at least justify the infuriation when they did their job properly.
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    Here’s a crazy idea: make the CAPTCHAs so complicated humans can’t complete them.

    That way if someone does, you know they’re a bot.

    I should probably patent that or something. (Is joke, etc.)

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      This very circumstance is described in the book „Qualityland“ and probably many more literature.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-Uwe_Kling ?

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        Sounds straight out of Paranoia RPG. Friend Computer knows what is best for you. To imply that Friend Computer does not have your best intents in its algorithms is treason.

      • BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz
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        I think I have my next ready thanks!

    • Mîm@lemmy.zip
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      Choose at random a captcha that a human could complete or one a human couldn’t complete (while the bot supposedly could complete all of them).

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      I give up on any captcha with mor than 1 image. The problem is you aren’t letting people in, even if you are catching bots. You’ll have to turn it off to let people in.

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        They usually only do it when you’re on a vpn. So you just have to give up your privacy and disable the vpn to be seen as human.

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          Generally true, but I had cases where I got multiple captcha without vpn, and not even a single one with VPN enabled…

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    With Firefox recently captcha always fails lately. So bots can get by it but I can’t.

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      Same here. It’s infuriating. It is specifically Cloud Flare CAPTCHA that I have issues with, but Google’s also take longer than it used to. I pretty much always have to select the images containing traffic lights or something, and then you see how bad some of them have gotten.

    • agelord@lemmy.world
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      Check out this addon to auto solve recaptcha: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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      I haven’t experienced that. Do you remember a site so I can try it out? Lol

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        Logging into my Roku account from my phone for example did not work. The login for my internet provider and power company gave issues too. Was able to login with google chrome with no captcha issues

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    CAPTCHA later alligator

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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      In a while bot denial

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    Well, no, because it was designed just to piss all of us off in the past two decades.

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    Do we have to pull some cyberpunk 2077 type shit and make a new internet? Because it really sounds like it’s becoming a documentary

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    Pandoras box is ripped to shreds…

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    The underlying issue is that somehow bots have value. Work on that and bypassing captchas will be a hobby again instead of a job.

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      What does this even mean?

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