Hah nice, I thought I was the only one who did this!

I've noticed that in the more extreme edge cases, it lets me through anyway. Maybe other people aren't paying enough attention to notice that there's actually a difficult-to-see street sign in that particular square.

Sometimes I feel bad that one day, a Waymo car is going to miss a stop sign because of me. But then, I also resent being used as a free mechanical turk, and they should know better than to rely on random people from the internet to build safety-critical systems.

In my experience, when I do it slightly wrong it actually takes less steps to get through. I guess in the age of Yolo v4 and such, doing it “too well” actually makes you look like a robot?

We will all thank you when Waymo will be stuck at an hydrant thinking it is a red traffic light lol

Google knows 2 out of the 3. The same with text captchas, they knew 1 of the 2. It assumes if you got one right, you got the others too. So they key is guessing which one is unknown, picking the correct ones, and picking a random one for the last

I never understood the mindset that finds joy in throwing off the datasets being trained on these kinds of captchas. Is it related more to the "rush" of cheating on a test in school (i.e. figuring out a way to "cheat" on the captcha), or rooted more in rebellion against Google/whoever?

It may not surprise you to learn that his Ph.D. was on "on Games With A Purpose, which are games played by humans that produce useful computation as a side effect" and is same person behind Duolingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn

Ebay's side project Gumtree throws up captchas if you so much as open two links in new tabs, for "moving through the site at superhuman speed".

captchas make sense when you want to keep spammers out of your comment section. For logging in to an account though, the best alternative is really to just do nothing. Maybe rate limit connections that send bad logon attempts.