Comment by sugarpimpdorsey
19 hours ago
Comic Sans?
I thought maybe displaying a dialog that says "SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE" front and center, that steals cursor focus (after a random delay), and covers content, might have been a better illustration of the phenomenon, considering it's more intrusive than the pop-under ads of the early 00's.
"Click all squares containing a motorcycle."
"Failure to verify. Click all squares containing a traffic signal."
I hate how much unpaid labor I've given to Gemini just because so many sites fall for the DDOS shakedown. And I've heard the story about how PayPal's captcha saved the company or whatever, I just don't think the solution should be appointing Google as your gatekeeper.
It is made worse by it not actually looking for the right answer at all stages of that process. Part of it you're training it, and it will take your word for it. Let's make that image appear slowly, like real slow fade in. Motorcycle? Include the rider, not include the rider? Does it matter? Who cares, we have made our mind about your IP already, this is just to annoy you.
There is that one guy that orders 50lbs anvils from Amazon, just to return them. He has been doing that for 6 months. This is the kind of thing that makes a person do that.
Yeah Google actually has a patent on the "unsolvable" captcha thing
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Great comment.
Kind of illustrates how detached they are from actual substance and how shallow their understanding of what bad UX really means.
This is an incredible burn if I've ever seen one.
I'm kind of sad it didn't wrap text off the viewport, change font sizes randomly to be tiny and not scale with browser zooming, and choose colors with low contrast.
As someone, who haven't opened sites made by google in months, I got "we want your data" pop-up covering whole page. It was pretty bad UX.