Post inspired by the bot threat that people on Lemmy have been talking about. I’m not asking how an expert would design it, but how you would design it if you were tasked with it.

  • ANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I have also encountered some different styles over the years.

    A good one that I saw involved three shapes. You had a triangle, a sphere, and a cube. There were three patterns. Striped, polka-dotted, and plain. The shapes also had textures. Some shapes were smooth, others had fur. There were 3 backgrounds. I think one was brick, one was flowy colours, but I forget what the third background was.

    Anyways, out of those options, you were generated a random combination of two shapes, 2 colours, a texture, and one background. The captcha generated it’s own 3 randomized images, but the fourth image matched your generated image. The placement of the fourth image was also randomized.

    I have to be honest, I was tipsy when I used it and it kept me out for longer than I’d like to admit haha.