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		garaetjjte on April 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha Can we get back text based captchas instead of annoying whack-a-mole photo picking?

theandrewbailey on April 8, 2020 [–]

No. Photos of street things are much easier to pick out than warped or miscolored text.

hombre_fatal on April 8, 2020 | [–]

Especially the amount of warping you apparently need to do to text to make it hard for a neural network these days.

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