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Comment by elliotpage | Hacker News Reader

I got a good laugh out of this for a few seconds before getting actually frustrated with it. Mostly because my bank does a lot of these terrible things.

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i gave up on the second screen...

I didn't, which to me says I've been trained very well by terrible design.

If you manage to actually 'sign up' it tells you are a legend and rewards you with a Dancing Carlton gif[0].

[0] - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/carlton-banks-dance/

Really? I couldn't seem to prove that I was human. I thought it just threw you into an infinite "prove you're human" loop at the end.

There is a vertical scroll bar. You need to check them all because they're all checks.

In case anybody missed the humor in this, like I did the first time round: all of the pictures denote some kind of "check". Like with the bows.

There are pictures of people checking things – a watch, and something else I can't quite see.

There are games of chess in a state of check.

There are monetary checks.

There are check boxes.

I scrolled down and still couldn't see the checkboxes under the last row. Maybe it also doesn't work on Firefox, because as trivial as it is to make a site that works everywhere no one does. Normally this frustrates me, but if that's the case here it kind of makes sense.

The checkboxes are actually above all of the images.

I tried scrolling down, realized I couldn't, then scrolled up to find the unfilled row at the top...

I did exactly that as well. I’m also happy that there appear to be several different captchas, as others mentioned ones I didn’t see. The best one I clicked through was “select every picture with glasses” and every picture had either eyeglasses, drinking glasses or panes of glass.

I’m pretty sure the top row of check boxes doesn’t appear until you scroll back up.

facepalm this is even better.

LOL LEGEND

Mine was "select all checks" and had plaid cloth, chess kings in trouble, checkmarks, x marks, bank checks, etc...

The one that almost got me was the popup with the timer that said "hurry up" but instead of a "go away" box it had a "full screen" box. I don't know how you are supposed to get rid of that box, I had to inspect element->delete node to get past it.

I did manage to finish in a little over 5 minutes.

> I don't know how you are supposed to get rid of that box,

The copyright symbol at the bottom left is followed by "lose". Very insidious.

    Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('input[type=checkbox')).forEach(e => e.click)

You need to check every box.

Wait, how do you get to the second screen?

> Please click HERE to GO to the next page

The word HERE is a link, with styling and cursor set to look like normal text.

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