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Yeah, you know what computers suck at but it's relatively easy for humans? Summing numbers. /s

edit: I mean the captcha could keep all the "hard for robot" elements (recognizing top face, recognizing symbols) and remove the "hard for human" one (sum), like "select the dice that have the following symbols on top: <red circle>, <blue rectangle>, <green triangle>".

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Problem with the latter example is those that are colour blind although I guess it's not much worse than asking people to sum up dice.

I'm guessing though they are more so looking at % correct and the actual behaviour of making a selection rather than just whether you are capable of adding up numbers.

Well that's not the case. I made a mistake on the fifth one and had to start all again from the start.

So it's 100% correct or redo. Infuriating

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