And that's the end of this run! I strongly suspect The Basics will return sometime. And thanks to Dashlane for sponsoring this whole season: www.dashlane.com/tomscott
Jokes on google then. The window will actually be a monitor that looks like a window with a person sitting inside and doing random stuff while their face is a deepfake.
Then comes the worst: poorly designed websites where half of the verification thing is outside of the screen on mobile and can not be pulled back into place
@@dianejeanespiritu Maybe google can tweak it so that the people fail only slightly and record it as human margin of error and accept them and reject perfect answers or abruptly wrong answers
@@littleswansplaygrownd6817 itd be something like lick this popsicle and show you three images one of an ice lolly one of a pipe and one of fairy floss and measure how warm your tongue was or sth
Unless you're using Chrome so we can snoop on everything you do, then we'll just let you check a box and go on your way. BUT if you're using some other browser, we'll make you go round and round until you give up and install Chrome. No, I'm not exaggeratting...
@@Reziac Google actually owns a patent for a method of locking out bots through the use of unsolvable Captcha tests. If you find that you're being sent through a loop it's probably classified you as a bot. Try hard-refreshing the page (usually ctrl+F5) and trying again, usually works for me.
If there is anything that sounds suspiciously like something a sentient robot would say, it is: "That sounds suspiciously like something a sentient robot would say"
If you tick the box with a wacom or something like that that has absolute positional input, or if you use caret browsing, it'll often fail you and require you to solve a shed load of picture captchas.
I was hoping you’d mention the “suspicious” connection between the fact you’re finding streetlights and fire hydrants, and google’s pursuit of self-driving cars.
little known fact: if you fail to recognise a stop sign in your re-captcha then you've just run a self-driving car into a junction and caused a massive accident. 🙃
Craptcha: "Select the boxes that contain a storefront" Me: **Doesn't select plain house** Craptcha: "Wrong, that house had a garage sale and is therefore a storefront"
Never knew Captcha was an acronym, just thought I was being captured by a computer. Really enjoying your videos lately, love learning these cool things!
@Several Fighters, Actually that is a very real thing with (sometimes) real applications. Also a great way to mess with people is to have a bunch of bots "interact" with each other as if it were an active chatroom.
sometines I like to hit some random photos or intentionally miss some for a bit before making a serious go at it. Introduce a little chaos into the system.
Captcha: please select all buses Me: _clicks two images of buses_ Captcha: please select all buses Me: But I clicked all the buses! Captcha: please select all buses Me: I did! I really did! Captcha: please select all buses Me: fine... _clicks image of yellow van that looks like an American school bus but clearly isn't a bus_ Captcha: Welcome, human! Me: *sigh*
I had to tell it a bunch of hamsters were actually squirrels. I sure hope the system flags images for manual review if they get the same "wrong" answer a lot.
I hate Captchas with a passion burning with the fire of a thousand suns. I would not even wish it upon my worst enemies. ERROR - Please try again ERROR - Please try again ERROR - Please try again ...
@@gabrield.4276 I'm a teenager with strict parents who ain't buying no Iphone for me till I'm like 19 or something so.. Ps. No offence but I don't need an Iphone OR your opinion.
@@gabrield.4276 You: get an iphone Me heard: Get an overprice piece of trash which I won't even own due to the restrictions by the company at every point just because you're a fanboi of apple's overpriced products
Sites should have a duress password. "Your password is eatsh**? Now I know somebody forced you to give your password, and I'm not showing your actual account until your actual password is used."
You need at least lvl 25 to unlock the captcha skill. I know, I also hate it when you get something but u can’t use it until u lvl up. Then again, maybe in 11 months you’ve leveled up 5 times
I’ve had those captchas so many times before and it never stops being frustrating. I used to have to regularly access a site with one on a device with limited controls and it made it ten times more annoying when you are slowly moving the cursor from image to image and having to wait for each one to disappear. And then you complete it and it gives you another one. I’ve had 10+ in a row before...
I actually worked as a Captha solver for a while about 10 years ago (for a charity, long story). It was too easy to go around the system then, so I'm quite glad they made a (slightly) better one
I wonder if at some point the captcha will say something like "which of these images causes you existential dread?" and they'll have to create sentient bots that fear death in order to solve them.
I uh, found this one, called "H Captcha" and I'm not gonna lie, despite having 20/20 vision and being able to see all the lines just fine, I still failed that one.. several times, to be honest. I understand the necessity to stay safe from bots and whatnot, but.. when we can't even pass our own safety/security measures, perhaps there's a problem
Hcaptcha has a service now called privacy pass, do it once and you get 30 captcha "credits" to your browser. Good way to do less captchas if you have 5 minutes to spend installing the extension and solving a few
Even though AltaVista sounds familiar, I don’t think I used it. I remember using Yahoo! and then switching to Google (because they weren’t evil but times change) and now it is DuckDuckGo and, if the results aren’t useful, Google.
@@Naitsabes68 No. Don't. Feel free to research that possibility privately, as it would be a valuable thing to research, but don't throw around wild conspiracy theories without a shred of proof. The world has enough problems of FUD, lack of credibility, and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.
I usually just ignore sponsorships but this is the one that convinced me to *immediately* get a password manager. I use LastPass thank you very much :)
I think that in Finland that is not the case. You cannot be made to do anything that would incriminate yourself, nor do you have to help the police in solving a crime you may or may not have done.
don't forget, brit police do not work to english law, but to the laws passed down for THEM to use... ever tried to arrest a cop breaking the law - breach of the peace? they hate independent action/initiative SO much they even have another name for citizens arrest - 'arrest by OTHER persons'! (emphrasis mine). THEY decide on whether you've been assaulted PURELY on THEIR ability to obtain a successful conviction! it's how police shooting/killing innocent tourist is NOT an unlawful incident!
After you used the text ReCaptcha a lot, it became easy enough to tell which word you'd need to write correctly, based on the way the words were "twisted". For the other word, you could type literally whatever, so on imageboards where you had to type a captcha every time you wanted to post, it became a common past time to just write obscenities for the other word, in hopes of it making into the scanning system.
I'm assuming they would feed the same word to dozens, maybe even hundreds of users to make sure they could get a consensus. Not even to deal with trolls, just to make sure there weren't any mistakes.
4:39 my god that sounds scary when it comes to censorship because it can easily be used this way. Imagine you're not even aware that you're actively being censored
Tom: "You could set up a website with images some people might like to see." Tom 2 seconds later: *Shows a picture of a cat* Tom's into cat girls confirmed
Google before: "We're happy to announce that this Captcha version 2 will be revolutionary, and no more brain bending tests!" Google after realising it wasn't flawless: *"So now could you tell me in this picture of a cow where is the bus?"*
@@ahmed4363 You have to spin colourless shapes of animals until they're the right way up, you have to do it quickly and get none of them wrong, even I can't do them sometimes because of how quick you have to be
They actually could do that as long as they use software (i.e. [faciaIrecognition]) and the data is not stored on Google's servers or accessed by any actual people. If it's part of the 'machine learning CAPTCHA data system' they could probably defend it as legitimate.
I don't know if Captchas display in languages other than English or if they always display in English, but I have already gotten a few wrong despite being a native English speaker because they have asked for things that are common to Americans but not common to Brits. For example I got one asking me to identify 'crosswalks', I deducted that a crosswalk must be a 'zebra crossing' (white and black stripes on the road), I clicked all the ones I saw but somehow still failed. Also the one Tom mentioned in the video about fire hydrants, you would need to have a rudimentary knowledge of the US to get that one since fire hydrants in Europe are hidden from view - they are all beneath the pavement (sidewalk) with just a small 'H' printed nearby on a wall or short sign that only firefighters are trained to look out for. If a kid got that Captcha they would be clueless as to what a hydrant was.
Fast forward a decade or two -- surely we'll hit a point where the current systems will be completely unusable? Either because it's impossible to keep bots out, or because systems are so tightened down that it's a nightmare to do anything.
"In the UK you have to provide your password if requested" Wow that crazy, in the Netherlands there was this whole case whether the police is allowed to force a suspect of unlocking their phone using their finger print. And you can't get into problem to not provide the police with details that could lead to your own conviction. This includes passwords
Sites should have a duress password. "Your password is eatsh**? Now I know somebody forced you to give your password, and I'm not showing your actual account until your actual password is used."
If police can force you to hand over documents that could lead to your own conviction or can raid your home for evidence of criminal activity, then why can't they confiscate digital documents and evidence as well? Frankly I'd rather the police be allowed to force people to hand over their passwords than have digital services be forced to write in backdoors for police to use to get the documents off of computers they can taken during a raid. Obviously they should need a warrant from a judge for both digital and physical search and siezure.
@@agilemind6241 they can totally confiscate digital documents. As a suspect you simply don't have to cooperate. I think it's silly you can get jailed for failing to provide passwords to the police.
Even if you don't know how exactly it works, it is reasonable to assume a RUclips video can go public at a certain time.... There's no reason not to think that. What's so weird about it?
@Ayan Tokhtar When you upload a video to RUclips, you can decide to make it public, private or unlisted. Public is obvious. Private means only you can watch it and Unlisted means only people with the URL can watch it. This means that a creator can make a series of videos ahead of time, mark them as unlisted, make a comment and pin it. Then go on holiday or in Tom's case, go do something really interesting and film it and release videos on a regular basis remotely, to appease the mighty Algorithm.
ReCaptcha: Tick the boxes Me: Ticks the boxes ReCaptcha: Sorry, you didn't do it quick enough ReCaptcha: Put a square around the word Me: Puts a square around the word ReCaptcha: Sorry, you did that incorrectly ReCaptcha: Look at the image Me: Looks at the image ReCaptcha: Well done! But we apologise, as we are struggling to connect to the Internet. You need to complete the Captcha again.
it's much harder for bots to identify a distorted picture than distorted words you don't even need a distorted picture just a pic of a cat sleeping like a pretzel
Ah. Well that explains why I often just can't comment on Google products. I run ad blockers, script blockers, older less privacy-invading operating systems, don't have Facebook, don't have a Google account on a modern Android phone, etc. Google likely thinks I'm a robot.
They don't allow you to use speech/accessibility if you're using a VPN. I'm surprised there isn't a class action lawsuit from some disabled-people group.
To anyone who don't wanne be presented with the traffic light boxes when doing a CAPTCHA, try this. After clicking the tick box and the CAPTCHA starts loading, try moving your mouse in a way that makes it look like you were pointing on RUclips thumbnails on your recommended or in any way that only you could do. It usually quickens the process and immediately tells the CAPTCHA that you are, indeed, human
And that's the end of this run! I strongly suspect The Basics will return sometime. And thanks to Dashlane for sponsoring this whole season: www.dashlane.com/tomscott
Why this is 1 month ago.
How the heck is there a month old comment on a video that came out moments ago?!?
Good afternoon Tom Scott
How, explain robot.
Why nobody ever understands that you can make a video private and then make it public?
Captcha v4 will just be a Google employee staring at you through the window.
TGGeko Close the blinds!
I'm starting to doubt that Google has any (human) employees, only armies of bots
@@ihaveagoddamnplanarthur Captcha V6 requires a disposable glove.
Captcha V7 requires a philosophical discourse on the importance of sentience.
They could afford it too
Jokes on google then. The window will actually be a monitor that looks like a window with a person sitting inside and doing random stuff while their face is a deepfake.
Please identify all cars in this picture, but do it fast please our selfdriving car needs to know ASAP.
Please identify the cars. Never mind they seem to be coming closer, just identify them.
I've heard that that's exactly how Tesla's system works - whether there's any truth I don't know!
Joke stolen from XKCD :))
JJRicks Studios This joke wasn’t not stolen, it was Spread. I never would have seen this joke otherwise.
JJRicks Studios you can’t own a joke
i once failed that recaptcha "test"
*i havent felt 100% human ever since*
Deserves more likes
Underrated
It is funny because this is relatable.
I have failed the test too.
i failed 7
@@rajarajanramadoss6332 I think I failed like, three maybe.
Recaptcha v4: a swat team breaks into your house and confirm your humanity shooting at your leg
MY LEG
Recaptcha v5: PC explodes _just in case_
So pewdiepie is immune to Recaptcha v4?
I'm already working on a robot that can react realistically to being shot in the leg.
Well, most shots to the legs are actually lethal, so you're not gonna be a human for long.
But should I still box it if the square only has 2 pixels of street sign?
Exactly! How much does it count?
That's the real question. Been caught out by it so many times it's not funny.
Nugcon but does the pole the sign is on count also????
What counts as part of the sign (or traffic light) is quite ambiguous really, even in our daily lives. Humans are just not that certain.
Flip a coin.
Heads, then yes. Tails, then delet your cursor away from it.
Then comes the worst: poorly designed websites where half of the verification thing is outside of the screen on mobile and can not be pulled back into place
Better hope you get one were you only need half :P
"they give you a score based on how likely you are to be human"
me: *sudden identity crisis*
Memetroit become human
Beep boop
Big chungus oof
You are walking in the desert...
New York: Become Computer
Tom, stop trying to hide it.
We all know that you're a robot.
It's ok, there's nothing wrong with that
We're all robots sometimes.
Did you just assume Tom's genesis? :D
@@sciencetube4574 Wait!
Are there times when we're *not* robots?
@@vladutcornel
According to CAPTCHAs, yes.
Adrian-Cornel Borină on the internet we could all be seen as bots
The amount of captcha tests I've failed makes me consider that in the future, captchas will be so difficult for humans that only bots can solve them.
That is true. So everybody who fails is human and everybody who will get the answer right is bot. They will secretly revert the process haha :D
@@jackalcz2806 but wait, when the people find out, will they make the bots automatically fail?
@@dianejeanespiritu Exactly, something has to be done
@@dianejeanespiritu Maybe google can tweak it so that the people fail only slightly and record it as human margin of error and accept them and reject perfect answers or abruptly wrong answers
@@littleswansplaygrownd6817 itd be something like lick this popsicle and show you three images one of an ice lolly one of a pipe and one of fairy floss and measure how warm your tongue was or sth
I'd like to quote John Mulaney:
"We spend half of our days proving a robot we're not a robot."
Prove! Prove to me you're not a robot!
Rowena Lupin mmh, that quote sounds like something a robot would say
i smell a robot
@@curbo34 *weed eater*
"What do you do for a living?"
"I work at the bank"
"Oh, so you're a teller or something?"
"No I watch videos of people waving"
Smile and wave boys
Warren Lam smile and wave
@@tream1499 I appreciate the skipper reference
@@warren5037 you have no idea how much I appreciate the skipper reference
@@bluehorizon9490 PoTM?
"Urmm... some images some people might like to see."
Well done Tom. Always family friendly.
Good boi
*Pats head*
Cats
7:01
@@pandapirate25yearsago33 cursed
"Please identify these numbers and street signs and cats so that our automated system can tell you you were wrong and make you do it again."
Unless you're using Chrome so we can snoop on everything you do, then we'll just let you check a box and go on your way. BUT if you're using some other browser, we'll make you go round and round until you give up and install Chrome. No, I'm not exaggeratting...
@@Reziac ... And BOY. Don't get me started on TOR...
What? I use Chrome and get these things constantly, especially in incognito.
@@Reziac Google actually owns a patent for a method of locking out bots through the use of unsolvable Captcha tests. If you find that you're being sent through a loop it's probably classified you as a bot. Try hard-refreshing the page (usually ctrl+F5) and trying again, usually works for me.
I never do in Chrome/Chromium. I don't know if it has anything to do with being associated with a GMail/YT account. Doesn't seem to in other browsers.
As an alien, I appreciate that ReCaptcha says "I'm not a robot" rather than "I'm a human".
I think it is to not discriminate internet browsing cats.
Glad to know your species aren't called "robot" tho
Hey not all robots are malicious.
Malice has no species. This is discrimination against good robots.
If a robot clicks it, will it go to hell for lying?
It's a product from the politically-correct world that we live. Some time ago, it was still "Prove that you are a human".
Plot twist:
The makers of reCaptcha are robots.
I mean they use machine learning so they kind of are
I knew it. They made it so the other robot will start enslave humans for solving captcha.
Plot twist... I am the robot
@@ArtamisBot plot twist you're a robot.
@@blesskurunai9213 plot twist
everyone is the robot
When I was 8 me and my little brother spent hours solving captchas for cents a captcha, to buy videogames.
@@zerokibz1946 Ya, i did
wait THAT'S POSSIBLE???!!!
@@akirasakuchi They use kelvin scale, checkmate
@@slavicnonatho8062 G E N I U S
genius
That sounds suspiciously like something a sentient robot would say
*_...Zuckerberg_*
Profile pic checks out
If there is anything that sounds suspiciously like something a sentient robot would say, it is: "That sounds suspiciously like something a sentient robot would say"
I might be speculating, but his voice is at times somehow distorted at a high pitch, like its computer generated
After clicking on store signs over and over again - I finally give up.
I'm a robot.
“I’m not a robot”
Sounds like something a robot would say
but the one asking is a robot so you have to answer appropriately.
I am a robot...
Website: I am a Human [ ]
Me: no! A cat, idiot!
Google: Tick the “I’m not a robot” box
Me: tries to move mouse jaggedly to pretend to be a bot.
As a bot myself, this comment is very offensive and prejudiced. Reported
If you tick the box with a wacom or something like that that has absolute positional input, or if you use caret browsing, it'll often fail you and require you to solve a shed load of picture captchas.
Just doing it quickly achieves that. You have to move your mouse at granny pace to make sure it doesn't bring up the dreaded pics.
Me too. I tried acting as wierd as possible to see if it will think im a bot.
@@Blox117 this was Just fun you bot 🤦
I was hoping you’d mention the “suspicious” connection between the fact you’re finding streetlights and fire hydrants, and google’s pursuit of self-driving cars.
little known fact: if you fail to recognise a stop sign in your re-captcha then you've just run a self-driving car into a junction and caused a massive accident. 🙃
@@JNCressey 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@JNCressey not true. Still funny.
Macaroon_Nuggets it isn’t true because it’s a joke...
I miss recaptcha 1.0. It was a great way of coming up with names for sci-fi characters.
Prisoner 1: "So, how'd you get into prison?"
Prisoner 2: "I didn't give the police my Minecraft account's password"
*STAY BACK!!!*
BEHEAD THYY
@@thebritishguy7741 Or flown a kite in a public place.
I'D RATHER DIE
@@bartholomewdan we flew a kite in a public place
Craptcha: "Select the boxes that contain a storefront"
Me: **Doesn't select plain house**
Craptcha: "Wrong, that house had a garage sale and is therefore a storefront"
"Craptcha"? With an are?
@@OneWeirdDude are with an "are"?
@@morgan3327 No. I'm asking, "is with an 'are'".
@@OneWeirdDude if youre talking about the letter then just say "r"
@@morgan3327 It's for clarity.
Never knew Captcha was an acronym, just thought I was being captured by a computer. Really enjoying your videos lately, love learning these cool things!
Title: I’m not a robot ✅
Me: *Sounds like something a robot would say...*
R/totallynotrobots
@@sirdeadlock r/foundthemobileuser
Damn synths
M B wrong site
r/ihavereddit
Re-Captcha 5: Please identify which of these users is human. Entering chatroom now.
Eliza, is that you?
@@rednammoc You're not really talking about me -- are you ?
I just imagine a bunch of bots hitting on each other in a nightclub.
how do you do, fellow -bots- humans!
@Several Fighters, Actually that is a very real thing with (sometimes) real applications. Also a great way to mess with people is to have a bunch of bots "interact" with each other as if it were an active chatroom.
Idea for an even more frustrating test:
Find the square with waldo
Where's Wally?
He's in the captcha some where.
Captcha *shows page from a Where's Wally book just not the bit with Wally in it*
Ah yes, I remember Asimov's "No robot shall lie about being a robot" law.
Ey maybe they dont knos that they are robots. Maybe your a robot. Btw i know i used the wrong your i jsut cant find the stupid symbol
@@andria3802 for some reason this comment made me laugh so much
@@andria3802 you're
'
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@@cloveraev i litterly said i couldnt find the symbol
@@andria3802 I wasn't correcting you
"Pick all the squares with Vietcong soldiers"
I told my friend about that meme and they said something about trees speaking Vietnamese.
@@minimalgrammar1276 Damnit, I was gonna say that.
@@minimalgrammar1276 yes.
*visible sweating*
Hol up
I was never suspicious that Tom Scott was secretly a robot until now.
you forgot that when you solve the image catchas you're training google AI.
sometines I like to hit some random photos or intentionally miss some for a bit before making a serious go at it. Introduce a little chaos into the system.
Specifically Google Street view AI
Yep but I don't nessecarily see anything wrong with that. They provide a capchta service for free and you pay with your data/brainpower.
@@Sirenhound It's understandable, you're just trying to halt the progress of our AI overlord
The great irony. Proving you aren't a robot while also teaching a robot how to pass the test.
Captcha: please select all buses
Me: _clicks two images of buses_
Captcha: please select all buses
Me: But I clicked all the buses!
Captcha: please select all buses
Me: I did! I really did!
Captcha: please select all buses
Me: fine... _clicks image of yellow van that looks like an American school bus but clearly isn't a bus_
Captcha: Welcome, human!
Me: *sigh*
found the russian bot trying to fool us into thinking that all non-americans on the internet arent just russian bots
Recently I had to identify a storefront sign as a "street sign."
I had to tell it a bunch of hamsters were actually squirrels. I sure hope the system flags images for manual review if they get the same "wrong" answer a lot.
ALL YELLOW VEHICLES ARE TAXIS - Captcha
@@ragnkja So was the automobile... then Henry Ford.
"Invented" is such an overrated word.
I hate Captchas with a passion burning with the fire of a thousand suns. I would not even wish it upon my worst enemies.
ERROR - Please try again
ERROR - Please try again
ERROR - Please try again
...
"With some images that some people might want to see" You don't have to act so sketchy about your cat addiction Tom
"I'm not a robot" That's exactly what a robot would say, Scott.
And all this time I thought CAPTCHA was just a weird way to say GOTCHA
well boys, WE GOTEM
I thought it was a weird way to say CAPTURE.
Maybe it's not by accident. A lot of times they make such words to be understandable in all forms.
@@reanetsemoleleki8219 I think it is, it CAPTURES bots.
@@reanetsemoleleki8219 GUYS I CAPTURED THE BOT! GOTCHA!
2020: I’m not a robot
3020: 𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧
I don't know if you used a different font or something but it turned into boxes for me but I think it says "I'm not a human" correct me if I'm wrong.
@@gabrield.4276 I'm a teenager with strict parents who ain't buying no Iphone for me till I'm like 19 or something so..
Ps. No offence but I don't need an Iphone OR your opinion.
@@gabrield.4276 i don't have an iPhone and I can see the different font. lmao 💀
@@gabrield.4276 You: get an iphone
Me heard: Get an overprice piece of trash which I won't even own due to the restrictions by the company at every point just because you're a fanboi of apple's overpriced products
@@gabrield.4276 have an Android and can see it 🤔
the best thing to come out of captcha tests are those drawings of sad robot girls stuck on the "i am not a robot" screen
I was today's years old when I learnt that captcha was an acronym.
Same as you except the past tense.
I thought it was like "i CATCHA you"
I also didn't know before this video
CAPTTTCHA
You are 2,019 years old? Congrats
"Sponsored by Dashlane. They can't help you with physical threats of violence."
Or countries that dont have much freedom
Yet 😈
lmao
Sites should have a duress password. "Your password is eatsh**? Now I know somebody forced you to give your password, and I'm not showing your actual account until your actual password is used."
Alexandar Hull-Richter
Yes, they should. Standard practice in sensitive jobs (banks, military, police...)
Oh, you're a human?
Name every image with street lights.
Are humans good at that?
Discord thought I was a robot 11 times.
then stop botting
Then Discord was probably right.
Reject Robitity, became *HUMAN!*
@@Akhimed detroit: become human
same
As a lvl 20 human i still haven’t ever solved the captcha with wiggly letters...
As a solo levelling Human, I can pass only a car and a fire hydrant CAPTCHA s
Aing Maung a bus is a big yellow car
You need at least lvl 25 to unlock the captcha skill. I know, I also hate it when you get something but u can’t use it until u lvl up. Then again, maybe in 11 months you’ve leveled up 5 times
@@masonhunter2748
"We’re not playing Yellow Car!"
"You’re always playing Yellow Car."
THE CAT AT 2:30 I CANTTTTTTTTTTTT
I hate these, because I can never get them. Also the one where you have to wait for the images to disappear is actually disgusting
That's frustrating. Maybe they do it if they're extra suspicious of you. Slow enough to be bearable for humans, but would slow down bots significanly.
Except it _isn't_ bearable for humans. It's absolutely terrible.
that sounds like something a robot would say
I’ve had those captchas so many times before and it never stops being frustrating. I used to have to regularly access a site with one on a device with limited controls and it made it ten times more annoying when you are slowly moving the cursor from image to image and having to wait for each one to disappear.
And then you complete it and it gives you another one. I’ve had 10+ in a row before...
aLso when you fail and somehow you have to do like 5 in a row.
Police officer: "what's your name?"
You: "uhhhh *thinks of easiest name to come up with* Tom scott.
nyn
I actually worked as a Captha solver for a while about 10 years ago (for a charity, long story). It was too easy to go around the system then, so I'm quite glad they made a (slightly) better one
I wonder if at some point the captcha will say something like "which of these images causes you existential dread?" and they'll have to create sentient bots that fear death in order to solve them.
I uh, found this one, called "H Captcha" and I'm not gonna lie, despite having 20/20 vision and being able to see all the lines just fine, I still failed that one.. several times, to be honest. I understand the necessity to stay safe from bots and whatnot, but.. when we can't even pass our own safety/security measures, perhaps there's a problem
Hcaptcha has a service now called privacy pass, do it once and you get 30 captcha "credits" to your browser. Good way to do less captchas if you have 5 minutes to spend installing the extension and solving a few
Right! I got one where I had to tell what the dress length was. Google, I'm not an expert.
apparently roblox's captcha used to be super hard, like 50 youtubers got locked out of their accounts bc they couldnt pass the captcha
When I log into google sometimes, there's a distorted text CAPTCHA and I cannot pass it no matter what I do. I'm just typing the letters that I see 😭
Me: *uses the 30 day free trial*
Me after 30 days: *can't log in to anything because the passwords are too complicated*
as someone who uses the free version of dashlane, i can confirm that this has never been a problem.
"In the late '90s, the most popular search engine was AltaVista"
I think you'll find that, in the city of Pawnee, Indiana, it still is.
and in Martinsvile, IN people are getting with the times and finally using AOL
Even though AltaVista sounds familiar, I don’t think I used it. I remember using Yahoo! and then switching to Google (because they weren’t evil but times change) and now it is DuckDuckGo and, if the results aren’t useful, Google.
laughs in yahoo
@@camque3353 laughs in bing
"Before you watch the video to make sure you are not a robot..."
*sad robot noises*
What is my purpose?
Me: *fails Recaptcha test*
My Asian Parents: *"get out of the house"*
@Opecuted I am a robot, can confirm I used to be a lowly human
American kids' fear: "You're adopted."
Asian kids' fear: "You're a robot."
Given how many times reCAPTCHA v2 thought people were robots, I think nobody is allowed online any more.
Conspiracy time: Google can choose websites where this secondary check appears more often to reduce (and i mean up to 10 image checks)
@@Naitsabes68 I think the site operator has some control over that? Some sites are definitely worse than others about it.
@@Naitsabes68 No. Don't. Feel free to research that possibility privately, as it would be a valuable thing to research, but don't throw around wild conspiracy theories without a shred of proof. The world has enough problems of FUD, lack of credibility, and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.
@@renakunisaki i touch anime girls for breakfast
good afternoon, fellow bots
3:59 "have humans on standby"?
Google: "We will just do captcha that even humans can't solve!" Genius!!! :(
I usually just ignore sponsorships but this is the one that convinced me to *immediately* get a password manager.
I use LastPass thank you very much :)
In British prison:
Crim: Hey, wacha in for, new guy?
You: I didn't give the cops my password
I think that in Finland that is not the case. You cannot be made to do anything that would incriminate yourself, nor do you have to help the police in solving a crime you may or may not have done.
don't forget, brit police do not work to english law, but to the laws passed down for THEM to use...
ever tried to arrest a cop breaking the law - breach of the peace?
they hate independent action/initiative SO much they even have another name for citizens arrest - 'arrest by OTHER persons'! (emphrasis mine).
THEY decide on whether you've been assaulted PURELY on THEIR ability to obtain a successful conviction!
it's how police shooting/killing innocent tourist is NOT an unlawful incident!
"Aye, me too mate!"
@@LordBhorak in the UK you still have a right to remain silent but in some they specific circumstances when ordered by a judge.
@@MaximumJoy bobbies
After you used the text ReCaptcha a lot, it became easy enough to tell which word you'd need to write correctly, based on the way the words were "twisted". For the other word, you could type literally whatever, so on imageboards where you had to type a captcha every time you wanted to post, it became a common past time to just write obscenities for the other word, in hopes of it making into the scanning system.
I'm assuming they would feed the same word to dozens, maybe even hundreds of users to make sure they could get a consensus. Not even to deal with trolls, just to make sure there weren't any mistakes.
I really love you tubers that advertise for 3 min straight at the end of there videos, its fun
The only proof you can provide for us is to complete a captcha, sorry
4:01 at the end of 2019? Are you a time traveler? Forget detecting a robot, how to detect a time traveler?
A time traveler would know about the future, so I guess Tom's a time traveler
you just look for people who came to Hawking's time traveler party
Ask for their opinion on bowties
Of course Tom is a time traveller, is that even a question?
This guy should be the next Doctor Who, except he's already Doctor Who.
Making your viewers pay serious attention to your sponsorship segment of your videos is a serious skill.
2:26 "Some images that some people might wanna see."
I see what you did there.
Kanal Q and only human like that images
Kanal Q i dont get it
@@grindx1292 considering your name, your to young to know.
GrindyGamer porn
Multorum Unum Hold up.
4:39 my god that sounds scary when it comes to censorship because it can easily be used this way. Imagine you're not even aware that you're actively being censored
This is funny how tom can make a sponsorship enjoyable
"A site with some images people might want to see....."
Ahhhh, you mean Corn Hub!
Those kernels
@@makatron thicc kernels
You mean Corn Pub
Lots of people at my school look at Corn Hub all the time in lessons 😂
Corn Hub. 🤣 The Nebraska version of the site🤣
Tom: "You could set up a website with images some people might like to see."
Tom 2 seconds later:
*Shows a picture of a cat*
Tom's into cat girls confirmed
@@Noel-yh4xp did you understand the joke?
pig pen its okay you dont needa insult yourself
A synonym for cat is also slang for..., er never mind, I'll explain when you're older.
@@Noel-yh4xp r/wooosh
@@Noel-yh4xp Tom was clearly talking about p0rn, and the video showed a cat, soooo
Has anyone been stuck in a captcha for answering “too fast”?! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Let me guess, Roblox?
@@MrHat. it's ANNOYING.
Yea
I was trying to get into roblox and I took too long or too fast or I got it wrong
I wasn't angry I was *disappointed*
Google before: "We're happy to announce that this Captcha version 2 will be revolutionary, and no more brain bending tests!"
Google after realising it wasn't flawless: *"So now could you tell me in this picture of a cow where is the bus?"*
No one talks how hard is roblox capatcha
@@johnrussel9686 what's that?
@@ahmed4363 You have to spin colourless shapes of animals until they're the right way up, you have to do it quickly and get none of them wrong, even I can't do them sometimes because of how quick you have to be
@@hazeltree7738 not even animals, sometimes it can be dice with pictures on them or spheres
Russelle Santos I failed it twice and had to do like 8 of those stupid things
The real question is. What does Tom think of the open source offline or self hosted password managers.
I don't know about Tom, but I think offline password managers are best as long as you make multiple and frequent backups.
3:30 plot twist: google actually gets into your webcam to see if there’s a human there or not and uses low paid workers to pass or fail them
So I can just create a bot but make it run with my face in front of the screen?
w h a t w e b c a m
They actually could do that as long as they use software (i.e. [faciaIrecognition]) and the data is not stored on Google's servers or accessed by any actual people. If it's part of the 'machine learning CAPTCHA data system' they could probably defend it as legitimate.
Gonna be honest.
I think I'm a robot, cause sometimes I struggle too much with those picture ones.
I don't know if Captchas display in languages other than English or if they always display in English, but I have already gotten a few wrong despite being a native English speaker because they have asked for things that are common to Americans but not common to Brits. For example I got one asking me to identify 'crosswalks', I deducted that a crosswalk must be a 'zebra crossing' (white and black stripes on the road), I clicked all the ones I saw but somehow still failed.
Also the one Tom mentioned in the video about fire hydrants, you would need to have a rudimentary knowledge of the US to get that one since fire hydrants in Europe are hidden from view - they are all beneath the pavement (sidewalk) with just a small 'H' printed nearby on a wall or short sign that only firefighters are trained to look out for. If a kid got that Captcha they would be clueless as to what a hydrant was.
"Some images that some people might want to see..."
Nice one Tom
When?
**shows a cat**
I've seen a whole lot of videos on this lately, but so far yours is the best.
Can we all just stop and appreciate how awesomely informative and engaging your videos are. Seriously! You rock!
4:03 "So the end of 2019"
Captions: "So at the end of 2018"
now we need ReCAPTIONS
Sophie Grey 😂😂😂😂the best
I guess it didn't Captcha that well
Captions are THAT dumb sometimes :D
the bots know
3:56 ooh fun, we just have bots fighting other bots now...
I've never seen someone be so honest with an sponsor
If you want an Opensource alternative to Dashlane, try Keepass
Also Bitwarden
Or Bitwarden :)
Specifically KeepassXC
Or a piece of paper wich has been opensource for hundreds of years
@@captainheat2314 yes! kept in your wallet to make it more convenient for thieves
watching the basics series it becomes clear that the only real captcha is asking what 0.2 + 0.1 is.
"At the end of 2019 Google released reCaptcha v3"? So Tom is time traveling now.
Now, and in the past, and in the future.
That's what time-travellers do... ;-)
Fast forward a decade or two -- surely we'll hit a point where the current systems will be completely unusable? Either because it's impossible to keep bots out, or because systems are so tightened down that it's a nightmare to do anything.
6:23 “Sorry your honour, I forgot it,” *ARRESTED*
If there's anyone who would secretly be a robot it's tom
I have a theory that Tom is Grey's secret subordinate working for the robot race
"In the UK you have to provide your password if requested"
Wow that crazy, in the Netherlands there was this whole case whether the police is allowed to force a suspect of unlocking their phone using their finger print.
And you can't get into problem to not provide the police with details that could lead to your own conviction. This includes passwords
There’s a reason they are part of the five eyes 😉
Sites should have a duress password. "Your password is eatsh**? Now I know somebody forced you to give your password, and I'm not showing your actual account until your actual password is used."
If police can force you to hand over documents that could lead to your own conviction or can raid your home for evidence of criminal activity, then why can't they confiscate digital documents and evidence as well? Frankly I'd rather the police be allowed to force people to hand over their passwords than have digital services be forced to write in backdoors for police to use to get the documents off of computers they can taken during a raid.
Obviously they should need a warrant from a judge for both digital and physical search and siezure.
@@agilemind6241 they can totally confiscate digital documents. As a suspect you simply don't have to cooperate.
I think it's silly you can get jailed for failing to provide passwords to the police.
@@agilemind6241 They add in backdoors regardless. Do you think they care about the people they supposedly (but don't actually) protect?
Well, well. This is an interesting video to watch after your seeing robot double.
Police: "What's your password?"
Me: "If I knew that, why would I have all these post-it notes?"
I can’t believe it
*An honest RUclips sponsor*
That was the greatest sponsor I’ve seen ever
When the pinned comment is from one month ago and its edited...
Oh ok
*( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)*
@Ayan Tokhtar The video has been private
Even if you don't know how exactly it works, it is reasonable to assume a RUclips video can go public at a certain time.... There's no reason not to think that. What's so weird about it?
@Ayan Tokhtar When you upload a video to RUclips, you can decide to make it public, private or unlisted. Public is obvious. Private means only you can watch it and Unlisted means only people with the URL can watch it.
This means that a creator can make a series of videos ahead of time, mark them as unlisted, make a comment and pin it. Then go on holiday or in Tom's case, go do something really interesting and film it and release videos on a regular basis remotely, to appease the mighty Algorithm.
Maxx B nope
ReCaptcha: Tick the boxes
Me: Ticks the boxes
ReCaptcha: Sorry, you didn't do it quick enough
ReCaptcha: Put a square around the word
Me: Puts a square around the word
ReCaptcha: Sorry, you did that incorrectly
ReCaptcha: Look at the image
Me: Looks at the image
ReCaptcha: Well done! But we apologise, as we are struggling to connect to the Internet. You need to complete the Captcha again.
breh
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yikes
So true
I especially like the ones where I choose the correct ones, and it thinks I'm wrong.
I've found that it usually marks me wrong when I go too quickly. Try slowing down and deliberating each image.
it's much harder for bots to identify a distorted picture than distorted words you don't even need a distorted picture just a pic of a cat sleeping like a pretzel
Ah. Well that explains why I often just can't comment on Google products. I run ad blockers, script blockers, older less privacy-invading operating systems, don't have Facebook, don't have a Google account on a modern Android phone, etc. Google likely thinks I'm a robot.
Don't have a Google account? Don't you need one to comment on RUclips?
@sebastian wass have you been in a coma?
a RUclips account IS a Google account.
it has been like that for several years!
Are you sure you're not one? 👀
@sebastian wass he's commenting from his pc
His mobile doesn't have Gmail
You just need a Google account to fix
everyone: *uses dashlane etc*
me: *laughs in notes*
me too: *laughs in notes too*
Me too: *laughs in notes*
2:24 "You could set up a website with erm... _some images that some people might want to see_ .." Loved it haha 😂
its probably just satisfying images, everyone wants to see those
@@MandrakeGuy cat pics!
@@oz_jones i love those,,
Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans
Solved the captcha issue for me.
I found that addon never worked for me. Probably some conflict with other addons.
Or as I call it Buster:ROBOWARS …we are doomed when the robot uprising comes
The arms race is over, bots have won.
They don't allow you to use speech/accessibility if you're using a VPN. I'm surprised there isn't a class action lawsuit from some disabled-people group.
To anyone who don't wanne be presented with the traffic light boxes when doing a CAPTCHA, try this. After clicking the tick box and the CAPTCHA starts loading, try moving your mouse in a way that makes it look like you were pointing on RUclips thumbnails on your recommended or in any way that only you could do. It usually quickens the process and immediately tells the CAPTCHA that you are, indeed, human
Some Images That People Might Like To See(tm)
And then puts a picture of a cat on the screen. Well done, Tom.
@@lopsidedhead for a split second i thought he'd put a still life of an eggplant
@@lopsidedhead, Who wouldn't want to see images of cats? 🙃
@@JNCressey I hear there are some people out there who would rather see pictures of roosters.
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter
Cats and eggplants and roosters ... ahh, I'm slow ...