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Ask HN: Are there human friendlier alternatives to Captchas or Google reCAPTCHA?

6 points by philippnagel ↗ HN

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dpandya
What issue are you facing with Capchas at the moment?
philippnagel
It is super annoying. For example every time I visit a site implementing Google reCAPTCHA I am asked to select cars or signs on photographs.

As a dev that cares about UX I wondered whether there are better solutions or ideas out there.

dpandya
Google also offers "checkboxes" that measure your mouse movement to see if you're a human. Maybe those are more to your tastes?
dangrossman
That's the same service. If Google's confidence that you are human is not high enough, they don't show the checkbox, they show the "click all the images that are [label]" test instead.
codegladiator
I close the signup/login if it shows google recaptcha. I don't want to be training their neural networks for free. I will not solve those captchas. Converting book text to text was fine, but i am not selecting which images has cars and which one doesn't.