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Ask HN: Are CAPTCHA's Getting Easier?

2 points by ejlxsh 2 years ago · 1 comment · 1 min read


One CAPTCHA that seems pretty common at the moment is pointing an animal in the direction of a finger, either N, NE, E, SE, etc... by clicking a button to change the animals current direction.

It just occurred to me that there is a 1/8 chance of being assigned the correct position to begin with. I created a new account on Twitter to check and, after three tries, got one pointing in the right direction.

Why are these CAPTCHA's a thing? 12.5% of bots will pass this by clicking the submit button straight away. Am I missing something?

prabhatsharma 2 years ago

I got a captcha from azure. Took me 15 minutes to solve it

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