Comment by malborodog
3 years ago
Can you explain that again differently? I didn’t understand that captcha point. It feels important though.
3 years ago
Can you explain that again differently? I didn’t understand that captcha point. It feels important though.
I think they're referring to the old reCAPTCHA v1 approach.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA:
> The original iteration of the service was a mass collaboration platform designed for the digitization of books, particularly those that were too illegible to be scanned by computers. The verification prompts utilized pairs of words from scanned pages, with one known word used as a control for verification, and the second used to crowdsource the reading of an uncertain word.
Original captcha was built around transcribing text that ocr tools failed at
So I give you two words to transcribe to prove you are human. I know one of them and I want to know the other.