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.
@@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.
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
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.
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"
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"
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.
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. 🙃
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.
@@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."
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.
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 ...
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!
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.
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.
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
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 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 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
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...
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.
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
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.
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
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 :)
@@unliving_ball_of_gas I actually tried a voice-based captcha... The audio quality is low, the sounds are quiet, and the accents are thick. Not for my non-native ears.
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
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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.
"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
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.
"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?
Recaptcha v4: a swat team breaks into your house and confirm your humanity shooting at your 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.
@@randomguy263 It's what we call "destructive testing"
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
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".
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*
"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 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
"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.
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
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 🤦
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.
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
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
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
“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!
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.
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 miss recaptcha 1.0. It was a great way of coming up with names for sci-fi characters.
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
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
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!
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.
"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.
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...
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
Oh, you're a human?
Name every image with street lights.
Are humans good at that?
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.
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 🤔
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."
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
"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.
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
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!
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*
"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...)
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.
Police officer: "what's your name?"
You: "uhhhh *thinks of easiest name to come up with* Tom scott.
nyn
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.
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
...
"Before you watch the video to make sure you are not a robot..."
*sad robot noises*
What is my purpose?
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
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 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.
3:59 "have humans on standby"?
Google: "We will just do captcha that even humans can't solve!" Genius!!! :(
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.
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
"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🤣
THE CAT AT 2:30 I CANTTTTTTTTTTTT
"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
Police: "What's your password?"
Me: "If I knew that, why would I have all these post-it notes?"
6:23 “Sorry your honour, I forgot it,” *ARRESTED*
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
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
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 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 😭
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.
3:56 ooh fun, we just have bots fighting other bots now...
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.
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.
watching the basics series it becomes clear that the only real captcha is asking what 0.2 + 0.1 is.
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.
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
Making your viewers pay serious attention to your sponsorship segment of your videos is a serious skill.
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.
The only proof you can provide for us is to complete a captcha, sorry
This is funny how tom can make a sponsorship enjoyable
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
"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... ;-)
everyone: *uses dashlane etc*
me: *laughs in notes*
me too: *laughs in notes too*
Me too: *laughs in notes*
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
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,,
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 :)
captcha: verify you’re human by selecting all the boats in the pictures
blind person:
*their fbi agent filling the form for them*
May I ask you why that blind person would be using that device without someone helping them? That person cannot see, my guy.
@Zoë Joenoes lmfao you’re acting like screen readers aren’t a thing
I know this is a joke but there are voice captchas
@@thatskyparrot-turtle5052 oh, why don't we all use that then. It has to be easier than finding cats in low-quality pictures
@@unliving_ball_of_gas I actually tried a voice-based captcha... The audio quality is low, the sounds are quiet, and the accents are thick. Not for my non-native ears.
Me: spending 20 minutes trying to solve the human verification
My PC: no human life signs detected
Captcha in 2080 - Please spit on tube on your computer to confirm human DNA.
I've never seen someone be so honest with an sponsor
Whenever a service asks me to send me a photo with me holding my ID, I sneak in my middle finger.
How many of them specify that you must be clothed in the photo?
@@renakunisaki only the non anime ones
@@renakunisaki Wear clothes in the front but have a mirror showing literally all the back sides in your clothes ripped off.
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.
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
me: *fails the i am not a robot test
also me: maybe i am a robot
Human: Become Detroit
That moment where your doubting your humanity
Well, well. This is an interesting video to watch after your seeing robot double.
"Some images that some people might want to see..."
Nice one Tom
When?
**shows a cat**
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
I really love you tubers that advertise for 3 min straight at the end of there videos, its fun
Can we all just stop and appreciate how awesomely informative and engaging your videos are. Seriously! You rock!
Recaptcha in 2050:
"To prove you're human, please place a bile sample in the bile sample recepticle"
I read that as "bite sample" and imagined a little hole in a wall next to a bowl of apples.
i swear i'm gonna be mad if dna isn't obsolete by 2050
I'm not sure how to feel about an ever-growing invisible war between spam bots and captcha tests
I can’t believe it
*An honest UA-cam sponsor*
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
Recently a robot hired a human to do the captcha for them…
reCAPTCHA v3: A robot decides whether the client is a robot or human, that's clever!
Back in my day we identified the reCaptcha trial word and replaced the other word with foul language. You kids with your fire hydrants.
Those CAPTCHA jobs got my grandmother out of abject poverty. Very clever.
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.