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Does anyone else act more 'human' when solving captchas? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly this. Clicking super fast makes the captcha keep on going, I've had instances where I solved 5 refreshes of captcha and it kept going.

But if you show indecision or confusion by lingering your cursor over one tile and then move after 2 seconds to a different tile and then come back, it will pass in one go.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do I have to 'act like a human' when Im already human...

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

These CAPTCHAs do more than just check if you clicked the right pictures. They analyze your mouse movements and stuff. For example, a bot would move the mouse in perfectly straight lines, click all the pictures quickly, etc. But a human would have more natural movements.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I'm sure at least one DDOS attack came from someone frustrated with captcha.