Unfortunately, hijacking the "constructive or not" rating system is much easier to accomplish.

I only have very rough knowledge, but it's based on machine learning. Figuring out -based on earlier knowledge- what the current image most looks like (a C, an A, and a T; a feline pet; or a bulldozer), not trying to store half an infinity of images, going through them each time and being confused when a few pixels change because the checksum isn't known.

And yes, computers are becoming better than us at the stuff we specifically use to make systems computer-proof.

We teach computers to read and understand distorted and hand-written text, and then try to use distorted text to keep computers away from only-humans-allowed systems.

We teach computers to recognise myriads of traffic signs in various angles and light configurations, and then try to use pictures of use traffic signs to lock computers away from system we only want humans to have access to.

Confusing? Yes.

Google does both cases in the latter at the same time. You get multiple images, some of which they know are <thing>, and some of which the computers are not yet entirely sure is <thing>, so they ask you to confirm in a way that you don't know which is "I think this is a <thing>, but I'm not entirely sure, can you tell me?" and which is "I know what this is, do you?".

Quit being a poorly programmed robot then.

CAPTCHA? What's that? Can you eat it?

I also have my browser set to delete everything when I close it, but I only get those 4 numbers in my mail for authentification code to log-in, just like Steam, but that's probably because of my IP changing every time I turn off the system.

Ah yes, that would be quite simple way to make the "store all images with known answers" tricky, as CAPTCHA could randomly change a few pixels here and there which would not affect us human, but would make them appear as new pictures to a database robot.

Oh well, if there is a silver lining to this arms race, cyber security professionals probably have work to do for the rest of their lives. If one day someone would inform "there, now everything is completely secure", then all those (CAPTCHA) professionals would be laid off!

The basic problems of captchas is, that they should be solvable also by stupid humans, but not by smart algorithms. As computer algorithms get more sophisticated it gets ever more difficult to find something that all humans can solve, but computers cannot. As a bonus, captchas are also specifically used to train machine learning algorithms. So it won't be long now that every captcha that can be solved by the majority of humans, also can be solved by computers.

Store fronts, cars, streets, street signs. Three of those in a row, most of the time now. It's a bit much, GOG.

Just to mention, I still haven't seen the captcha recently but I am having to log in twice. Just happened and it happened yesterday.

Maybe I should stop logging out when I leave.

One of the banks I get to deal with uses the same captcha which you can bypass after you;ve solved it a few times. Maybe that's why I;m not seeing it here.

We're already there and have been for years. There are also services that will (I say this as a fact since I'm familiar with the companies involved. A slur is not intended.) have someone in India solve it for you and they charge a few bucks per thousand views.

well i always feel like doing a world travel during solving this captchas ^^ and ya some sequences can be pretty annoying

The irony of all this is that a simple check to see if javascript is enabled detects most bots.

https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/is-javascript-enabled

:)

The op is right. It's f*cking annoying.

Love you too babe ;)
You can get your ip to change like that? how does that work if you don't mind me asking? I wish GOG did a phone text with the digits to hit in instead of getting an email with the code, Seems more time wasting imo.

I never ever see the captcha I just stay logged in.

I've been getting captchas non-stop for the last two weeks... don't know what it's all about, but I'd be grateful to the GOGBear if it stops. I am not a robot, I'm a meatbag! You should be able to tell the difference by now.

I had that turned on from day one and it's annoying tbh, but I am sure if anyone was to log in I would have found out. I am sure even gog would know if I was to ask them if any other IP logged into my account. I do hope they keep something like that around but knowing all the sorry we don't keep personal info around It would be a sorry we don't know.

On a fresh install of windows 10 from 3 days ago with google chrome, Is it a chrome issue? cause I am aware many of you use Firefox. well I will have to set my browser to keep passwords then if this is something I can't fix.