TITLE.

So, calming down a little.. (or am I?)...Trying to make a purchase via this Galaxy 2 thingy of yours.. I chose PayPal, I get the password field, alright.. I write my password there, and THEN I get the question as to whether or not I'm human.. Sure, I'll do a Turing test or two (or whatever that Google captcha-thingy is called)

- And fill out what squares have a traffic light in them (ey what about barely partial squares, do they count?)
- which one has a boat?
- select squares with a bus
- Oh and which squares have stairs in them?
- choose chimneys squares....
- Squares with bikes....

NO

JUST NO

I'm NOT doing 10+ Turing tests!

Going via the web browser did work though... not that I was very tempted to try it.

Also why the hell do you get me to input the password BEFORE the Turing test? What's the point?

Godddammmit I'm sick of capchas!


EDIT: Well I guess maybe this should be directed at PayPal? Still, frustrating!

Yes, there's a good chance it's on Paypal's end but even so, I recommend buying games via GOG.com rather than inside Galaxy as that's just easier to do anyways (since you don't have to have the client open). If you would like, you could submit a bug report but other than that, I'd say you would probably do best to just buy the games via the site instead of inside Galaxy.

Other than that, I think your situation proves what I've been saying about modern captchas: that they're excessive and difficult. I miss the days where it was a several-character code under some graphic noise rather than these stupid "find the x" image-based ones.

Even the distorted text I find difficult. But yes, it's sometimes to the point of me not bothering and just close whatever site / thing I was trying to do and forget about it (The thing in OP yesterday just wouldn't go away, it keept throwing test after test after test at me.. Just frustrating / maddening).

If enough people feel this way eventually, then, well, the whole point of these captchas goes away as the sites will be effectively blocked from usage. Be you robot or human :P

Actually maybe not from robots...probably the only ones that can solve them eventually. I'm convinced they have the A.I to solve any captcha's by now. Not that I have followed the subject too closely, but the progress they've made with deep learning, deepfakes etc. blows my mind (just look up GPT-3 on youtube for one...).

In that regard it's going to be interesting times ahead, in how they solve it, because a change just have to come (since captcha's will no longer serve the original function accurately). If it is solveable at all that is.. Maybe some sort of authenticasion? (Think: "This news video is authenticated by...". Then again, authentications can be faked? Idk).

Bit of a huge (but interesting) discussion though :)

I don't think I'll bother with a bug report btw. I'm just going to use a real browser from now on (except when launching games).

Yeah, I mean, I understand the necessity of some sort of captcha due to spambots, but it boils down to the same argument that GOG has used in regards to why they don't believe in DRM: while the goal may be to prevent ne'er-do-wells from doing their nefarious deeds, you're essentially punishing legitimate users in the process which just isn't cool. Hopefully something better will roll along and replace these anti-spam measures!

Apparently, too many times.