Click on all the squares where you see a motorbike.
Failed! There was a fraction of motorbike behind the car in the background that you couldn't possibly see. Try again.
Rinse and repeat, 15 more times.
More of an [email protected] than a showerthought.
Also, you're very wrong.
Ads can be blocked, captchas are required to access certain contents, and some are absurdly annoying if they detect you are using a vpn or tor.
But captchas at least have purpose other filling my brain with bullshit.
And yes, ads can be blocked but a block ad is just ... not there. So of course a captacha is more annoying than not seeing an ad. But that wasn't the question. I'd rather solve captchas for 5 minues than watch a single 30 second ad.
Yeah, but captchas are something you see if your privacy minded, not staying signed in, no cookies, that type of stuff.
If you're doing that, you're running an ad blocker as well.
So it's more that you see ads or you see captchas, rarely would someone run into both frequently.
Which likely lines up with what someone finds more annoying, it's what they see most.
Right. And wrong, respectively.
I can respect that.
Yes, and Google captchas are the worsts of all of them.
I found Buster a while ago and works most of the times, it use the accesibility audio challenger to try to solve it using speech recognition. When it don't work I found more easy to try the audio challenger, you just need to write the part that you understand and not all you hear, less picky than the images, still a pain in the ass
Thanks for sharing, will add this moving forward :)
Was there more to this thought?
My single-cell brain already delivered much more than it could.
I've started turning away from so many sites because they have a CAPTCHA. There are a few sites that are worth it enough to do demeaning work but as I get more fed up they get more rare.
Of course I probably show up as a "blocked threat" on these site's dashboards. So they probably aren't getting the message.
There are very few legitimate usage for CAPTCHAs, but fear mongering CAPTCHA services are trying to convince non-technical people that they are required.
Yes. You can block ads entirely. But the more you use stuff to block tracking and ads, the more you get captchas.
On a scale of zero to ten, how do you rate ads and captchas? Zero is completely neutral and harmless, and 10 is enough to spark acts of physical violence.
It completely depends on the context.
Ads can range from like 1 for relatively subtle ads that are separated from the content and have little to no tracking to 8 for ads that pop-up and obscure the content (I just go back when I see these).
CAPTCHAs can also range from like 3 for reasonable to complete puzzles put at reasonable locations (like signing up for a free account that may be used to spam or similar) to 9 when I have been a customer for 14 years and have purchased hundreds of dollars worth of stuff from the site and they slap them in random flows on the site when I am logged in.
Also the frequency of ads plays a significant role in how hard they are grinding my gears. For example, vanilla YT has become completely unusable because of this. Sites like that are easily above 6/10 IMO.
Those puzzle captchas are a total nightmare. At least 5/10. If they show up in bizarre situations, like the one you mentioned, the amount of annoyance starts at 6/10.
