gog2002x: I tried to check a code for today's newsletter and no matter how many images I correctly verify, it all leads to please try again error.
I think we've all used captcha enough times to know what we're doing.
This was happening with the Hulu captcha today also. Regardless of which set of images they want verified, none seem to succeed.
Anyone else experiencing this on the GOG redeem page?
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MadalinStroe: I'm getting the feeling that the correct solutions for Captcha puzzles are continuously corrected by the responses that are deemed to be human. Which is to say that if the majority of "human" responses go against the currently correct solution, they will eventually end up changing the solution for the puzzle.
Which is to say, even though you are convinced that you correctly solved the Captcha, it might just be that the actual solution is incorrect, as voted by the majority. And now, you need to solve twice as many correct Captcha in order to be assessed as "Human". Basically the more bad/incorrect responses you give, the more correct ones you need to give for the process to reach a Human/Robot state.
Thats also my understanding of how this works. "Correct" does not properly correlate with correct in terms of what the text is telling you. If you are unusually intelligent or diligent for example you have to downlevel your brain activity.
Also if you are not a Google sheep they will (logically I dont actually know) demand a random number of "correct" solutions from you in an attempt to outsmart bots. In order to outsmart bots they must make it hard for bots to distinct "correct" from not "correct". Of course this also means its impossible for a human trying to solve it to determine whether they solved something "correctly" and were just randomly screwed over by Google.
In addition to that Google supposedly also uses time used for clicking and other such measures - not just what you click at. So if you are faster than the norm you will be considered more likely to be a bot - this is kind of Google recognizing that bots are simply better at solving captchas than humans.
Or if you use an unusual mouse you may also get flagged as likely-a-bot etc.
Basically the whole thing may have the implied goal of turning everybody into normalized data-etc-harvestable Google sheeps.