This is not a joke, this is real Skype account creation (old.reddit.com)

17 points by scrumper 4y ago ↗ HN

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It's the devil's CAPTCHA, basically. And apparently you have to do it ten times in a row. Some evidence in the thread that this only applies to non-Edge browsers.

xvector 4y ago ↗

This is insane. Who at MS actually thought that this was a good idea? How do they have a job!?

Nextgrid 4y ago ↗

If Microsoft Teams can be around then I'm sure anyone could get a job there.

scrumper 4y ago ↗

Maybe the Teams product manager...? It certainly puts you off Skype!

twobitshifter 4y ago ↗

This is so bad it makes me what to train a neural network to do it for me.

Nextgrid 4y ago ↗

This seems trivial to recognize & bypass with good old image processing without even having to use machine learning.

exolymph 4y ago ↗

Someone in the comments said you have to solve TEN of these to get in?!

And if you're visually impaired, "they want you to listen to 3 songs and then decide which one is the saddest. Then do that 9 more times"

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/rv17yn/thi...

https://prnt.sc/25u6wgx