but holy shit, it's the first time I couldn't complete the captcha and I tried like 10 times
You gotta select square which contains to identical objects something like 5 to 15(!!!) times - the more you fail, the more challenges you have to do
Just take a look at those graphics
https://i.imgur.com/zOYqWGI.png
Some of them are easier and some waaaay harder
I think that's actually a dark pattern. I was testing the captcha myself and noticed that at the beginning, it would show a progress bar with 5 segments, but after completing the third one, it would increase to 7 segments. I had a screen recording going so I know this is happening when I'm not making any errors. However, after looking at the screen recording more carefully, I noticed that the initial 5 segment progress bar didn't actually say there were only 5 puzzles. Only after completing the third puzzle (and the progress bar got more segments added) did it say "x out of 7" puzzles. My guess is that they do this to make the captcha seem less daunting and to decrease the abandonment rate, while simultaneously not technically lying.
screenshots demonstrating the above: https://i.imgur.com/a8RM4Ot.png
FWIW I got the captcha correct on the first try, after 7 puzzles total.
I do fear we're headed in a direction where there'll be two false "choices" presented - either turn off all privacy improvements to browsers for vulnerable audiences (to make it easier to data mine and double dip from said paying audiences), or present these to the stubborn ones wanting to keep their privacy and hope that the friction will convert them back to the first batch.
We are at a point where the gap between the capability of the most advanced vision models and the capability of even the slowest neurotypical person to solve a captcha in a reasonable amount of time is very small.
I recently encountered a dart board addition puzzle which was shockingly confusing and took me about 30 seconds to a minute to solve.
there was this button, but it didnt work, but maybe that was because of my sound configuration or something? idk
games tend to steal sound device and the game was in the background
(I've seen this explained based on accounts of a public library built in the US which had stairs, but no elevators, for a specific section - this was still ADA compliant as they had staff on hand to serve readers in that specific section)
So a 30s delay or whatever it takes to limit spammers is probably not entirely unthinkable.
Remember that the whole trick of a spammer is that you aren’t able to see that his many actions are coming from one source. Otherwise it would be trivial to block. So there’s not a lot stopping a spammer from running many 30 second delays in parallel.
At least share the answer ?
So for example in the first test (top left collection 3x2 of six total pictures), the second picture in the first row has what I'll call a squashed cup icon with whipped cream on top in two different orientations. So I'd click on that one.
The for the second test (second collection of 6 pictures in the top row), the very first picture has two icons of a "dollar bill" in two different orientations. So I'm assuming you'd select that one.
For the third test (third/final collection of 6 pictures in the top row) the second picture in the first row has two icons of a briefcase in two different orientations.
While I didn't complete all 12 "tests", each one I looked at seemd to have one of the 6 pictures having a duplicate icon.
But yes definitely harder than the: "Does this image have a cross walk?" Or "Does this image have a lamppost?" Which I assume are pretty easily ML solvable now.
they have had similarly insane captcha before for some reason
Truly one of the worst implementations EVER on a major service, Arkose Labs deserves an unflattering spot in some sort of internet Hall of Shame.
I remember using Yandex set to English I would get cryillic captchas. I didn't know how to identify or enter these characters. Support told me that I had to switch from the .ru site (that all of the emails direct me to) to the .com site to get an English captcha.
This would be a hard no for me even before I got to the captcha.
It is significantly harder than Rosetta Zoo [0] or similar projects.
[0] https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ellenjj/rosetta-zoo/clas...
That way, a human could figure out how the specifically generated generator works within a certain amount of shots, before it changes to a different sample of captcha generator.
The presence of a captcha at all makes me rethink whether or not I really need to access the site.
If I really need it, I'll do the captcha. If the captcha is too problematic, though, or if I have to do one more than once, then I'll skip the site entirely. I can't think of an online service I need so badly that I'll put up with that nonsense.
E.g. middle column, second row image: I think the lower left square has two onigiri rice balls. Their shapes are not exactly the same, and they are black/white inverses.
No other square has a pair of objects which are similar to that extent.
Did you ask the vendor?
I tried, but I couldn't pass their captcha, so they refused to consider my request.
(Also, it is odd that they have paying customers pass a captcha. There are services that use humans to solve captchas for computers. They charge way less than the price of a video game per solution. Surely, a successful credit card transaction is a better "this is a human" signal than a captcha.)