I’m not talking about something harmless with puzzle pieces. I’m not even talking about matching or rotating shapes. Specifically, I’m talking about the insane grid of photos you’re familiar with from Google’s reCAPTCHA system. If you’re looking for an accurate look at why they exist and efforts to build replacements, please read this. I point out with exasperation that CAPTCHAs are there to stop bots, and they work, but I find them unfathomable.
Do you understand how I feel? rage.
I was trying to buy a double feature ticket for blade runner and robocop, just like you, a scary ghost appeared when you entered your credit card information. capture. I didn’t have to solve a single grid of depressing traffic images. Three things needed to be resolved.
You see, I have epistemological questions about how to approach these things. For example, if you click on an image that contains a bike and are told to display one image of the bike that spans all boxes, the correct number of squares to click is 0. Since each square contains only part of a bike. That’s not what I was asked to do!
becomes terrible. Sometimes you will be asked to identify a bus. In that case, one of the squares contains a strange, blurry image that is probably a bus or a train, but there isn’t enough context to tell. Is there an option to say “I don’t know”? of course not. I don’t even have vision problems.I think this whole experience will be fine now Pretty bad.
I think this experience is familiar to everyone reading this book. The Verge. You’ve probably read similar failed screeds over the years. Things were bad enough by the time they needed to be filled out. But these days, when you’re looking to buy something or even just sign up for an email list; for someone to sell me — I had to fill out three. three! why! why! why!
It’s already 2024. Shouldn’t the technology industry focus on innovation?
So here are the tech industry’s New Year’s resolutions: “Kill this.” Let’s get rid of it. Please find other ways to check that I’m not a bot. I don’t want to click on the bike again.