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Yeah, I feel like I'm going crazy looking at that first example video. Was Google's CAPTCHA not supposed to analyze exactly that? Yet the mouse is insta-jumping to the input boxes, the input text is being pasted in instantaneously, and somehow it gets past? That seems utterly trivial to detect. Meanwhile us normal users are clicking on pictures of traffic lights all day?

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That is because I do not think Google's aims for captcha are the same as ours.

I can tell you that as soon as you download Chrome and login to any Google account of yours, the captcha tests are suddenly and mysteriously gone.

Use firefox in full-lockdown mode, and you will be clicking fire hydrants and crosswalks for the next several hours.

My crazy conspiracy theory is that Google is just using captcha as an opportunity to force everyone out of privacy mode, further empowering the surveillance capitalism engines. The intent is not to be effective, but inconvenient.

Yes. As someone who runs with Firefox in full lockdown mode, including Privacy Badger and total blocking of Google Tag Manager, I have to click on a lot of fire hydrants and crosswalks.

Very few sites are broken by blocking Google's features, incidentally. Even Privacy Badger warns that blocking Google Tag Manager may break sites. It doesn't break anything important.

For me it's having to click on bikes. Except the pictures are of motorcycles and not bicycles. English isn't my first language, so when I hear bike, I am thinking of bicycles and not motorcycles.

I started using duckduckgo when Google requires to solve a captcha for searching.

me and you both

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