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[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

4chan's captchas are some of the hardest I've ever seen, it's not enough that it's hard to tell what the fuck it's written but having to align the text beforehand is just evil.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's why everyone is using browser addons or mobile apps that solve it for you. It's not very resilient against computers solving them, it seems.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A captcha that is easier for a computer to solve than a person seems rarher counterproductive...

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a shitshow. Nothing but bad changes to that site for years now

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

To be fair 4chan can be blamed for many things but not for the fact that we now have bots that are really good at solving captchas.

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

It's just because computers are better at everything

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Somehow it never occured to me to look for captcha solvers, got to try that next time I visit the site, although I doubt it'll work very well.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

The phone app I use gets it right 10/10. The browser extension, I don't remember which I used was 8/10 or so iirc

[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I swear to God I tried posting once but got my IP locked out from posting because I couldn't get the captcha right before x amount of tries. Thing is at towards the end I was so confident I was putting in the right letters and numbers but it just wasn't taking it.