No recent changes, but we do sometimes turn captchas on for logins when HN is under some kind of (possible) attack or other. That's been happening for a few hours. Hopefully it goes away soon.
Btw I also fume when I have to work as an unpaid manual image recognizer, so I'm open to alternatives.
- Select everything that is a color im sure there are more clever open-ended questions and maybe sometimes switch up "is" with "is not".
- Red
- Blue
- Monkey
- Violet
- Armchair
People say that bots can learn such things but if every site had their own in-house tool then bots would have to keep track of thousands of site specific puzzles. Each site could even rotate through a dozen sets of different puzzle types and pause the ones that get learned. This would avoid sending cookies to a third party or depending on 3rd party code thus mitigating some corporate capture.
Bonus complexity: Don't use Alpha-Numeric characters. Use something like "figlet" [1] and cycle through a few of its ASCII art fonts.