OK,

Trying to redeem a code, I get a bit of hesitation and then this:

"Please complete the Captcha to continue. It's nothing personal, just a crippling fear of robots."

I certainly don't think it was a human asking me for the Captcha.

Maybe it's a sign Skynet is about to become self aware?

So, I've been getting it for the past few months in here.

No it makes sense, it was a Gogbear!

Skynet has control of the planet already.

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Nah you still have it good.

When I try to sign up to some website, it want me to click all the picture with street sign, and regenerate some more to click. after that it want me to click all the picture with rivers, then all picture with storefront, then river all again, and the loops continue.

You know that only happens when you fail, right?
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Anybody know how to run a Turing test?

Sure, it's a robot with a crippling fear of robots. :) You only get one captcha if you do it right the first time. If you make a mistake, it will require you to fill out another one or more to further prove you're not a scam bot. I have this happen occasionally. What usually happens is it says "choose all the images with trees" or grass... so I click the obvious ones, but then you can see a distant mountain or something in the background of one and well, that has green trees on it so you click it and it wasn't registered to consider that image trees or whatever. Annoying, but that's the nature of AI based systems that attempt to authenticate that the person on the other end is a living and breathing human being.

It seems that lately these systems have started to greatly favour the "choose all of the storefronts" type. Indeed, that would be difficult to defraud programmatically.

Given the choice between filling out a captcha or getting dressed and walking/driving to a video game store and purchasing a game in person, I'll take 10 captchas over that any day though. Given the choice between filling out captchas or having no captchas but paying more for the product in order to counter the fraud committed by scammers using bots, I'll take captchas again anyday. I just hate the ones that show some heavily distorted text and numbers that are completely unreadable and they ask you 50 times to type in the text then tell you you got it wrong. Irritating! Much perfer the trees/streetsigns/storefronts type.

can i get a summary of the thread? im confused

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I like captcha. Its like a mini video game!

How can we be sure your human? Please check the attached picture and tick all that contain shop fronts.

At least GOG tells you there's a captcha you need to complete. Most sites don't seem to do that, so if you have Google's domains blocked (assuming the site is using reCAPTCHA) it can be difficult to figure out why a random web form isn't working.

I wish reCAPTCHA used its own domain so I didn't have to keep editing the hosts files every time I need to complete one - or, better yet, that sites didn't rely on massive data mining companies for such features. *adjusts tin foil hat*

Call who for pot here?