Why Can’t Robots Click The “I’m Not a Robot” Box On Websites?

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…the test is not that a person or robot can or cannot click the little box that prompts you to pledge that you are not a robot (though any robot that clicks the box will be guilty of lying! The nerve of some robots.) The point of the test is to see how you click the box. Robots are always going to be faster and more efficient than humans at certain things. For example, if you program a bot to click on these pesky boxes as they appear, the bot is going to zoom straight to the desired point and click as quickly as possible. The cursor will likely take a perfectly straight path along the shortest route to the box, resulting in an incredibly fast response. The speed of the response, and the path the mouse takes is a part of the test.

You see, humans are slow, inefficient, and random. A person is never going to drag their mouse to the CAPTCHA box the same way twice. The human hand is too random for that. Similarly, they won’t always do it in a fast or efficient manner. People might stop and read the box or check to see what website they were trying to access. Bots will never do these things (unless they are programmed to, but even then, they will always be rigid and efficient.)..

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It seems like I’ve only ever seen captcha’s that required you to click on multiple pictures that had a specific item in each of those particular pictures.  This would require a robot to have quite a bit of knowledge.

Being 20 something in the 70's was far more fun than being 70 something in the insane 20's

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Recently, the captcha challenge was different than normal for verifying a VISA card balance. For example in one challenge I was shown a picture list of various mammals and then was directed to pick the related image.

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I’ve come across a few other types recently. There’s one on Chinese sites which uses a slider and then prompts to align an object in the same direction as in a provided photo. Another one (I think on LinkedIn) was similar – rotate an illustration of an animal to the correct orientation.

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I’m waiting on the AI robots and the captcha so hard to fill out in order to fool AI robots that is too hard for me to pass. I barely pass the current ones.

HTH, Dana:))

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I was recently presented with a sequence of captchas of the kind “pick the images that have 2 of the same items in them”.  Halfway through the sequence one of the images contained 3 of the same items.  Hmm, what to do?  Did it mean pick if the image had only 2?  Maybe it meant at least 2?  While contemplating the choices it timed out and I had to start over. 🙂

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