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How does making you click I'm Not a Robot work
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2024-06-06 at 2:56 AM UTCWhy can't the computer automated box just be clicked. I've never understood that.
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2024-06-06 at 3:54 AM UTCMy understanding is that Google keeps track of you all across the internet. When you click that button it's using various factors like your browsing history and the way the mouse moves to decide if you're human. If it's not sure, it spits out a captcha.
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2024-06-06 at 4:12 AM UTC
Originally posted by Elbow My understanding is that Google keeps track of you all across the internet. When you click that button it's using various factors like your browsing history and the way the mouse moves to decide if you're human. If it's not sure, it spits out a captcha.
it also does some high-intensity background crypto work in order to slow down automated transactions; typically a bot farm would get bogged down if it had to do a bunch of stupid nonsense javascript every time it made a request -
2024-06-06 at 6:10 AM UTC
Originally posted by Elbow My understanding is that Google keeps track of you all across the internet. When you click that button it's using various factors like your browsing history and the way the mouse moves to decide if you're human. If it's not sure, it spits out a captcha.
I find that more scarier than the robots
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2024-06-06 at 6:29 AM UTC
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2024-06-06 at 9:04 AM UTCit's about 170,000 lines of code that scans various mouse clicks, your position on the screen, some eye tracking, a lot of database backend queries. The images themselves are generated by a decentralized botnet running on a virtual machine on the internet, a lot of the heavy lifting comes from google hardware, third worlders with data filled in by the rest of us schlebs
it's over engineered to be as complex as possible and rely on many moving pieces on purpose I assume to make it more robust and impossible to take down by any specific attack vector because it's made up of 100 different processes that aren't even all controlled by google. It's like a hivemind, IT IS A ROBOT ITSELF that's the real fucking irony is we have to bow our head and lube our assholves or else we get rejected by the robot for being too robotic (even though it's easier to just turn on a robot to click the stupid button) OH SORRY I CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CAT AND A MOTORCYCLE I GUESS I'M JUST A FUCKING RETARD I MUST BE THE ROBOT HURRR DURR -
2024-06-06 at 1:06 PM UTCThose Captchas bug me that say "Click on the traffic lights" and then a couple of the boxes have a TINY piece of the traffic light in it...do you click on those or not? because if you do click on them it opens up another pic like you chose wrong, and then when you don't click on them..it also opens another pic as if you were wrong.
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2024-06-06 at 1:45 PM UTCits not really about you.
google is actually using your clicks to train AI driving softwares and drone targeting data.
ever wonder why they never ask you to select animals or birds ?
its always objects that have military and commercial value like busses and zebra crossings. -
2024-06-06 at 5:17 PM UTCthey also pay poor people in third world countries to do it
https://futurism.com/crypto-guy-poor-people-npcsGetting paid to play video games might sound like a dream to some.
But if the rise of "play-to-earn" games is anything to go by, the reality looks far more like a nightmare. Take the gamers in the developing world who found a new way of earning a living with these games — before, in many cases, getting the rug pulled out from beneath them.
Despite this litany of failure, one crypto advocate has an even more ghoulish suggestion: exploiting the wealth gap in the developing world to fill future games with human-controlled non-playable characters (NPCs).
"With the cheap labor of a developing country, you could use people in the Philippines as NPCs," Mikhai Kossar, an NFT gaming consultant, told Rest of World.
These NPCs could "just populate the world," he said, or "maybe do a random job or just walk back and forth, fishing, telling stories, a shopkeeper, anything is really possible."
In short, it's a demeaning and tragic vision — and one with precedent in the blockchain world.
Axie Infinity, a play-to-earn game that allowed gamers to collect tradeable crypto tokens by playing it, became a way to make money when hard times hit during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the Philippines in particular, where the average income is low, thousands of gamers found a new way of earning cash by mining in-game currency in Axie Infinity and trading it in for real-world, fiat money. -
2024-06-06 at 6:25 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Those Captchas bug me that say "Click on the traffic lights" and then a couple of the boxes have a TINY piece of the traffic light in it…do you click on those or not? because if you do click on them it opens up another pic like you chose wrong, and then when you don't click on them..it also opens another pic as if you were wrong.
Not just me then?
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2024-06-06 at 6:28 PM UTCThanks for the explanation everyone!!!
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2024-06-06 at 6:33 PM UTCit's racist and also I fail half the time so I guess that means i'm a robot????
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2024-06-06 at 11:59 PM UTC
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2024-06-07 at 3:25 AM UTC
