Whenever I have to do a captcha where you must select all tiles with bicycles, I know I can just click through super fast, but I feel like that might make the website suspicious, so I purposefully slow down like “Geez, this is a melon-scratcher!” or click and then unclick a tile like “whoops, silly me, thats an umbrella not a bicycle!” And wiggle the mouse randomly a bit as if Im double-checking my work even when I know damn well I got all the bicycles in 0.67 seconds.
Basically I feel like I have to act dumb so the internet doesn’t think I’m a bot. DAE get this?
When I do it, I scratch my balls and then smell my fingers.
So in a way yes.Well…. Because if I do it normal, it doesn’t let me linn.
I do surveys for money and get a lot of captchas to do them, and I always go slow or they say you’re speeding through it and disqualify you. So yes I do.
Like, how much money?
Honestly it’s only between 50 cents to 2 dollars for most but it’s added up to a lot over time for me and I’ve bought myself quite a few things I wouldn’t have without this little cash influx. It’s tedious as hell but I’ve made about 3K doing it.
what apps/websites do you use?
Qmee, Attapoll, Survey Spin, and Leger Opinion. They’re all apps.
I tend to just select random tiles to confuse their AI.
does it work though
Not always, but a lot of time these captas are just there to collect data and don’t actually check if your input is correct.
TIL!
Yes, if I’m too precise for example checking boxes where only a bit of corner is a bicycle, it thinks I’m a bot
I click fast and let the chips fall where they may.
Our route to the beach goes through an immigration checkpoint. My friend says, 'ok everyone, try to look white." Captcha = ok everyone, try to look human.
| “…act more ‘human’…”
How am I not myself?
No, I’m just slow. In my dreams I’d pick all the crosswalks in under a second
I usually start sweating then do “finger guns” at a random point in the room and say “Hey, working hard, or hardly working, am i right? Heh…eh”. The Captcha just goes away after that.
I don’t consciously change my behavior, but sometimes I do worry if my natural inclinations are sufficiently human.
Like when they give you a traffic light that’s riiiiiight up against the edge of a box, so there’s like one pixel sticking out into the next box. I’m like “How many people notice that one pixel? Even if they notice, do they bother selecting it?”
Never thought the future would have me panicking about whether I fit in with the cool kids when it comes to identifying traffic lights, but here we are.
I worry about what defines a traffic light? Is it just the light or does the pole it’s on count?
Nah, I even use bots to solve them, they are better & faster than humans.
How? I’m interested too and that would be a great revenge on all the time I lost doing those
Meh, I just try to click shit as fast as possible. I had to really slow down the other day though, because it wanted me to identify diamond bracelets. All the pictures were AI generated and it insisted that I had missed one every time.
It was a bracelet, sure, but it had painted wooden beads.
Yep. Even when clicking the single checkbox captchas, I try really hard to click it “just like a human would”. Which is weird, because I am a human. I think.
Gotta meander around with the cursor a little bit just so you really look human.
How does that work on a touchscreen? Like, jab fat fingers at random screen locations a few times, then check the box?
So gunna start doing that.
No, I never act more human.
