I'm Not A Robot ✅

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[@TomScottGo]

And that's the end of this run! I strongly suspect The Basics will return sometime. And thanks to Dashlane for sponsoring this whole season: www.dashlane.com/tomscott

[@rickielukas4558]

Why this is 1 month ago.

[@tanishqvedak1862]

How the heck is there a month old comment on a video that came out moments ago?!?

[@MidiMaze178]

Good afternoon Tom Scott

[@olwop6311]

How, explain robot.

[@funnylucky731]

Why nobody ever understands that you can make a video private and then make it public?

[@Paul-A01]

Captcha v4 will just be a Google employee staring at you through the window.

[@ionlycommentnosrsly8733]

TGGeko Close the blinds!

[@pallandoromestamo8861]

I'm starting to doubt that Google has any (human) employees, only armies of bots

[@sirdeadlock]

@@ihaveagoddamnplanarthur Captcha V6 requires a disposable glove. Captcha V7 requires a philosophical discourse on the importance of sentience.

[@trueaidooo]

They could afford it too

[@Krawna]

Jokes on google then. The window will actually be a monitor that looks like a window with a person sitting inside and doing random stuff while their face is a deepfake.

[@smith22041]

Please identify all cars in this picture, but do it fast please our selfdriving car needs to know ASAP.

[@Ghiaman1334]

Please identify the cars. Never mind they seem to be coming closer, just identify them.

[@JackT1160]

I've heard that that's exactly how Tesla's system works - whether there's any truth I don't know!

[@JJRicks]

Joke stolen from XKCD :))

[@apolloapostolos5127]

JJRicks Studios This joke wasn’t not stolen, it was Spread. I never would have seen this joke otherwise.

[@dylanb2990]

JJRicks Studios you can’t own a joke

[@spacekid897]

i once failed that recaptcha "test" *i havent felt 100% human ever since*

[@bojarckhoosemanschnarf5851]

Deserves more likes

[@daringcuteseal]

Underrated

[@bluefox7678]

It is funny because this is relatable. I have failed the test too.

[@rajarajanramadoss6332]

i failed 7

[@bluefox7678]

@@rajarajanramadoss6332 I think I failed like, three maybe.

[@lepton_01]

The amount of captcha tests I've failed makes me consider that in the future, captchas will be so difficult for humans that only bots can solve them.

[@jackalcz2806]

That is true. So everybody who fails is human and everybody who will get the answer right is bot. They will secretly revert the process haha :D

[@dianejeanespiritu]

@@jackalcz2806 but wait, when the people find out, will they make the bots automatically fail?

[@pianopianist5709]

@@dianejeanespiritu Exactly, something has to be done

[@littleswansplaygrownd6817]

@@dianejeanespiritu Maybe google can tweak it so that the people fail only slightly and record it as human margin of error and accept them and reject perfect answers or abruptly wrong answers

[@acookie7548]

@@littleswansplaygrownd6817 itd be something like lick this popsicle and show you three images one of an ice lolly one of a pipe and one of fairy floss and measure how warm your tongue was or sth

[@sauronmauron6965]

Recaptcha v4: a swat team breaks into your house and confirm your humanity shooting at your leg

[@Halite660]

MY LEG

[@galaxyos_]

Recaptcha v5: PC explodes _just in case_

[@marijn848]

So pewdiepie is immune to Recaptcha v4?

[@renakunisaki]

I'm already working on a robot that can react realistically to being shot in the leg.

[@randomguy263]

Well, most shots to the legs are actually lethal, so you're not gonna be a human for long.

[@jerikmitchell7575]

"What do you do for a living?" "I work at the bank" "Oh, so you're a teller or something?" "No I watch videos of people waving"

[@warren5037]

Smile and wave boys

[@tream1499]

Warren Lam smile and wave

[@bluehorizon9490]

@@tream1499 I appreciate the skipper reference

[@bluehorizon9490]

@@warren5037 you have no idea how much I appreciate the skipper reference

[@sidhantomukerji7659]

@@bluehorizon9490 PoTM?

[@nicholasgawler-collins5754]

"Urmm... some images some people might like to see." Well done Tom. Always family friendly.

[@pandapirate25yearsago33]

Good boi

[@thehamlad]

*Pats head*

[@ykl1277]

Cats

[@Inertch]

7:01

[@Natalie-101]

@@pandapirate25yearsago33 cursed

[@thecatdragon589]

Then comes the worst: poorly designed websites where half of the verification thing is outside of the screen on mobile and can not be pulled back into place

[@ano_nym]

Better hope you get one were you only need half :P

[@renakunisaki]

As an alien, I appreciate that ReCaptcha says "I'm not a robot" rather than "I'm a human".

[@Tondadrd]

I think it is to not discriminate internet browsing cats.

[@Yuhara_rev]

Glad to know your species aren't called "robot" tho

[@lokeshchandak3660]

Hey not all robots are malicious. Malice has no species. This is discrimination against good robots.

[@kevintrang3007]

If a robot clicks it, will it go to hell for lying?

[@JPGT]

It's a product from the politically-correct world that we live. Some time ago, it was still "Prove that you are a human".

[@najmaht.a.1314]

"they give you a score based on how likely you are to be human" me: *sudden identity crisis*

[@Fred_the_1996]

Memetroit become human

[@lightningmcseed7303]

Beep boop

[@jack_copperz]

Big chungus oof

[@agenericaccount3935]

You are walking in the desert...

[@Felix-wq2ec]

New York: Become Computer

[@mr.doctor1897]

“I’m not a robot” Sounds like something a robot would say

[@Ra-Hul-K]

but the one asking is a robot so you have to answer appropriately.

[@ArtamisBot]

I am a robot...

[@WuffiePhoenix]

Website: I am a Human [ ] Me: no! A cat, idiot!

[@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz102]

Plot twist: The makers of reCaptcha are robots.

[@gideon7212]

I mean they use machine learning so they kind of are

[@xanhfei]

I knew it. They made it so the other robot will start enslave humans for solving captcha.

[@ArtamisBot]

Plot twist... I am the robot

[@blesskurunai9213]

@@ArtamisBot plot twist you're a robot.

[@tangovfx8246]

@@blesskurunai9213 plot twist everyone is the robot

[@Nugcon]

But should I still box it if the square only has 2 pixels of street sign?

[@jaidenoliver7165]

Exactly! How much does it count?

[@xmlthegreat]

That's the real question. Been caught out by it so many times it's not funny.

[@QueueWithACapitalQ]

Nugcon but does the pole the sign is on count also????

[@mukrifachri]

What counts as part of the sign (or traffic light) is quite ambiguous really, even in our daily lives. Humans are just not that certain.

[@qwedge]

Flip a coin. Heads, then yes. Tails, then delet your cursor away from it.

[@deciduous7778]

Google: Tick the “I’m not a robot” box Me: tries to move mouse jaggedly to pretend to be a bot.

[@Blox117]

As a bot myself, this comment is very offensive and prejudiced. Reported

[@fermitupoupon1754]

If you tick the box with a wacom or something like that that has absolute positional input, or if you use caret browsing, it'll often fail you and require you to solve a shed load of picture captchas.

[@mr8I7]

Just doing it quickly achieves that. You have to move your mouse at granny pace to make sure it doesn't bring up the dreaded pics.

[@Boryspitzanzx]

Me too. I tried acting as wierd as possible to see if it will think im a bot.

[@jannikstfl]

@@Blox117 this was Just fun you bot 🤦

[@Stealthwilde]

I miss recaptcha 1.0. It was a great way of coming up with names for sci-fi characters.

[@TheGrinningViking]

I was never suspicious that Tom Scott was secretly a robot until now.

[@bukachell]

Prisoner 1: "So, how'd you get into prison?" Prisoner 2: "I didn't give the police my Minecraft account's password"

[@renfrew24ify]

*STAY BACK!!!*

[@dontclickonlikedvideos.4781]

BEHEAD THYY

[@bartholomewdan]

@@thebritishguy7741 Or flown a kite in a public place.

[@hissingfaunaa]

I'D RATHER DIE

[@innocentbeancreature2370]

@@bartholomewdan we flew a kite in a public place

[@reasonablyobsessed]

I'd like to quote John Mulaney: "We spend half of our days proving a robot we're not a robot."

[@curbo34]

Prove! Prove to me you're not a robot!

[@mahirooyama9424]

[@lucagentile7841]

Rowena Lupin mmh, that quote sounds like something a robot would say

[@gaberoseo9989]

i smell a robot

[@hangman2869]

@@curbo34 *weed eater*

[@schalla-bills6618]

Never knew Captcha was an acronym, just thought I was being captured by a computer. Really enjoying your videos lately, love learning these cool things!

[@shoppingbaggins836]

Idea for an even more frustrating test: Find the square with waldo

[@Becky_Cooling]

Where's Wally? He's in the captcha some where. Captcha *shows page from a Where's Wally book just not the bit with Wally in it*

[@DiamondButter]

Title: I’m not a robot ✅ Me: *Sounds like something a robot would say...*

[@sirdeadlock]

R/totallynotrobots

[@LeftyPencil]

@@sirdeadlock r/foundthemobileuser

[@user-gg1eo9tg8u]

Damn synths

[@hystericallover5989]

M B wrong site

[@xexpaguette]

r/ihavereddit

[@imthatjay]

"Pick all the squares with Vietcong soldiers"

[@minimalgrammar1276]

I told my friend about that meme and they said something about trees speaking Vietnamese.

[@thekinginyellow1744]

@@minimalgrammar1276 Damnit, I was gonna say that.

[@monnamonsta]

@@minimalgrammar1276 yes.

[@eatyourcereal4134]

*visible sweating*

[@cbarre9937]

Hol up

[@annurissimo1082]

I hate Captchas with a passion burning with the fire of a thousand suns. I would not even wish it upon my worst enemies. ERROR - Please try again ERROR - Please try again ERROR - Please try again ...

[@taizu55]

Me: *fails Recaptcha test* My Asian Parents: *"get out of the house"*

[@ZaHandle]

You will become a robot when you fail it 10 times

[@ZaHandle]

@Richard Konzal that’s what your programming wants you to think

[@smugslider3690]

@@ZaHandle I am a robot, can confirm I used to be a lowly human

[@Ra-Hul-K]

American kids' fear: "You're adopted." Asian kids' fear: "You're a robot."

[@TheGreatCooLite]

Tom, stop trying to hide it. We all know that you're a robot. It's ok, there's nothing wrong with that

[@sciencetube4574]

We're all robots sometimes.

[@maxximumb]

Did you just assume Tom's genesis? :D

[@vladutcornel]

​@@sciencetube4574 Wait! Are there times when we're *not* robots?

[@sciencetube4574]

@@vladutcornel According to CAPTCHAs, yes.

[@joerym.9750]

Adrian-Cornel Borină on the internet we could all be seen as bots

[@poopipeboy3033]

Craptcha: "Select the boxes that contain a storefront" Me: **Doesn't select plain house** Craptcha: "Wrong, that house had a garage sale and is therefore a storefront"

[@OneWeirdDude]

"Craptcha"? With an are?

[@morgan3327]

@@OneWeirdDude are with an "are"?

[@OneWeirdDude]

@@morgan3327 No. I'm asking, "is with an 'are'".

[@morgan3327]

@@OneWeirdDude if youre talking about the letter then just say "r"

[@OneWeirdDude]

@@morgan3327 It's for clarity.

[@maxbloom4923]

THE CAT AT 2:30 I CANTTTTTTTTTTTT

[@bigmanthunder_]

Oh, you're a human? Name every image with street lights.

[@ArtamisBot]

Are humans good at that?

[@GamesFromSpace]

"Please identify these numbers and street signs and cats so that our automated system can tell you you were wrong and make you do it again."

[@Reziac]

Unless you're using Chrome so we can snoop on everything you do, then we'll just let you check a box and go on your way. BUT if you're using some other browser, we'll make you go round and round until you give up and install Chrome. No, I'm not exaggeratting...

[@kommentator1157]

@@Reziac ... And BOY. Don't get me started on TOR...

[@Snickerway]

What? I use Chrome and get these things constantly, especially in incognito.

[@TheButterscotchNinja]

@@Reziac Google actually owns a patent for a method of locking out bots through the use of unsolvable Captcha tests. If you find that you're being sent through a loop it's probably classified you as a bot. Try hard-refreshing the page (usually ctrl+F5) and trying again, usually works for me.

[@Reziac]

I never do in Chrome/Chromium. I don't know if it has anything to do with being associated with a GMail/YT account. Doesn't seem to in other browsers.

[@MalekiRe]

When I was 8 me and my little brother spent hours solving captchas for cents a captcha, to buy videogames.

[@MalekiRe]

@@zerokibz1946 Ya, i did

[@forhisneutralspecialhewiel2295]

wait THAT'S POSSIBLE???!!!

[@slavicnonatho8062]

@@akirasakuchi They use kelvin scale, checkmate

[@akirasakuchi]

@@slavicnonatho8062 G E N I U S

[@richtigmann1]

genius

[@Pedro-ss2qr]

Me: *uses the 30 day free trial* Me after 30 days: *can't log in to anything because the passwords are too complicated*

[@taududeblobber221]

as someone who uses the free version of dashlane, i can confirm that this has never been a problem.

[@bubbletea1985]

the best thing to come out of captcha tests are those drawings of sad robot girls stuck on the "i am not a robot" screen

[@ErfBoy]

2020: I’m not a robot 3020: 𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧

[@titaenic]

I don't know if you used a different font or something but it turned into boxes for me but I think it says "I'm not a human" correct me if I'm wrong.

[@titaenic]

@@gabrield.4276 I'm a teenager with strict parents who ain't buying no Iphone for me till I'm like 19 or something so.. Ps. No offence but I don't need an Iphone OR your opinion.

[@caden2193]

@@gabrield.4276 i don't have an iPhone and I can see the different font. lmao 💀

[@ShivamJha00]

@@gabrield.4276 You: get an iphone Me heard: Get an overprice piece of trash which I won't even own due to the restrictions by the company at every point just because you're a fanboi of apple's overpriced products

[@Davidjakla]

@@gabrield.4276 have an Android and can see it 🤔

[@AliasNo]

That sounds suspiciously like something a sentient robot would say

[@user-sc8mj5bb6k]

*_...Zuckerberg_*

[@joerym.9750]

Profile pic checks out

[@squidcaps4308]

If there is anything that sounds suspiciously like something a sentient robot would say, it is: "That sounds suspiciously like something a sentient robot would say"

[@georgedolganov4207]

I might be speculating, but his voice is at times somehow distorted at a high pitch, like its computer generated

[@Tako40404]

After clicking on store signs over and over again - I finally give up. I'm a robot.

[@Gussyboy06]

Ah you missed that fire hydrant, you know who does that A synth

[@Chrono-bo4zc]

Found the brotherhood of Steel soldier

[@TimeTravelingFetus]

"I'm not a robot" That's exactly what a robot would say, Scott.

[@daanwilmer]

Captcha: please select all buses Me: _clicks two images of buses_ Captcha: please select all buses Me: But I clicked all the buses! Captcha: please select all buses Me: I did! I really did! Captcha: please select all buses Me: fine... _clicks image of yellow van that looks like an American school bus but clearly isn't a bus_ Captcha: Welcome, human! Me: *sigh*

[@moth4256]

found the russian bot trying to fool us into thinking that all non-americans on the internet arent just russian bots

[@klutterkicker]

Recently I had to identify a storefront sign as a "street sign."

[@renakunisaki]

I had to tell it a bunch of hamsters were actually squirrels. I sure hope the system flags images for manual review if they get the same "wrong" answer a lot.

[@polygondwanaland8390]

ALL YELLOW VEHICLES ARE TAXIS - Captcha

[@blindleader42]

@@ragnkja So was the automobile... then Henry Ford. "Invented" is such an overrated word.

[@brandonsmith6675]

I was hoping you’d mention the “suspicious” connection between the fact you’re finding streetlights and fire hydrants, and google’s pursuit of self-driving cars.

[@JNCressey]

little known fact: if you fail to recognise a stop sign in your re-captcha then you've just run a self-driving car into a junction and caused a massive accident. 🙃

[@cianmac3934]

@@JNCressey 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@macaroon_nuggets8008]

@@JNCressey not true. Still funny.

[@EllTheBob]

Macaroon_Nuggets it isn’t true because it’s a joke...

[@hysteri]

6:23 “Sorry your honour, I forgot it,” *ARRESTED*

[@shaulpagis-sharon4484]

I actually worked as a Captha solver for a while about 10 years ago (for a charity, long story). It was too easy to go around the system then, so I'm quite glad they made a (slightly) better one

[@zeharix]

I was today's years old when I learnt that captcha was an acronym.

[@notthatcreativewithnames]

Same as you except the past tense.

[@rashad6009]

I thought it was like "i CATCHA you"

[@clarityunknown9500]

I also didn't know before this video

[@tentringer4065]

CAPTTTCHA

[@pauldzim]

You are 2,019 years old? Congrats

[@klutterkicker]

Re-Captcha 5: Please identify which of these users is human. Entering chatroom now.

[@rednammoc]

Eliza, is that you?

[@klutterkicker]

@@rednammoc You're not really talking about me -- are you ?

[@RAFMnBgaming]

I just imagine a bunch of bots hitting on each other in a nightclub.

[@Blox117]

how do you do, fellow -bots- humans!

[@MrSonny6155]

@Several Fighters, Actually that is a very real thing with (sometimes) real applications. Also a great way to mess with people is to have a bunch of bots "interact" with each other as if it were an active chatroom.

[@RyanTheHero3]

3:30 plot twist: google actually gets into your webcam to see if there’s a human there or not and uses low paid workers to pass or fail them

[@felipedaiber2991]

So I can just create a bot but make it run with my face in front of the screen?

[@michaelgunther8608]

w h a t w e b c a m

[@HuntingTarg]

They actually could do that as long as they use software (i.e. [faciaIrecognition]) and the data is not stored on Google's servers or accessed by any actual people. If it's part of the 'machine learning CAPTCHA data system' they could probably defend it as legitimate.

[@TjPhysicist]

3:56 ooh fun, we just have bots fighting other bots now...

[@michaelmartin9022]

Ah yes, I remember Asimov's "No robot shall lie about being a robot" law.

[@andria3802]

Ey maybe they dont knos that they are robots. Maybe your a robot. Btw i know i used the wrong your i jsut cant find the stupid symbol

[@mahuk.]

@@andria3802 for some reason this comment made me laugh so much

[@cloveraev]

@@andria3802 you're ' 'e

[@andria3802]

@@cloveraev i litterly said i couldnt find the symbol

[@cloveraev]

@@andria3802 I wasn't correcting you

[@mistyminnie5922]

And all this time I thought CAPTCHA was just a weird way to say GOTCHA

[@System-ru5yt]

well boys, WE GOTEM

[@reanetsemoleleki8219]

I thought it was a weird way to say CAPTURE.

[@unusveritas4122]

Maybe it's not by accident. A lot of times they make such words to be understandable in all forms.

[@an_egg_guy]

@@reanetsemoleleki8219 I think it is, it CAPTURES bots.

[@juango500]

@@reanetsemoleleki8219 GUYS I CAPTURED THE BOT! GOTCHA!

[@babydoll-pr1jg]

everyone: *uses dashlane etc* me: *laughs in notes*

[@SluggishRain]

me too: *laughs in notes too*

[@jesselukas55idontuploadasm21]

Me too: *laughs in notes*

[@JavierAndresAnd]

Has anyone been stuck in a captcha for answering “too fast”?! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@MrHat.]

Let me guess, Roblox?

[@c3lxtia124]

@@MrHat. it's ANNOYING.

[@arandomguywithagreenprofil5075]

Yea

[@boogerrrrr]

I was trying to get into roblox and I took too long or too fast or I got it wrong I wasn't angry I was *disappointed*

[@jeffskarma]

Discord thought I was a robot 11 times.

[@MandrakeGuy]

then stop botting

[@flitsertheo]

Then Discord was probably right.

[@Akhimed]

Reject Robitity, became *HUMAN!*

[@portablerefrigerator4902]

@@Akhimed detroit: become human

[@zombs0]

same

[@adamkampen]

"With some images that some people might want to see" You don't have to act so sketchy about your cat addiction Tom

[@goodboi650]

Well, well. This is an interesting video to watch after your seeing robot double.

[@D-V-O-R-A-K]

I especially like the ones where I choose the correct ones, and it thinks I'm wrong.

[@Mr_Doon]

I've found that it usually marks me wrong when I go too quickly. Try slowing down and deliberating each image.

[@jjc5475]

you forgot that when you solve the image catchas you're training google AI.

[@Sirenhound]

sometines I like to hit some random photos or intentionally miss some for a bit before making a serious go at it. Introduce a little chaos into the system.

[@rvnx]

Specifically Google Street view AI

[@Baxtexx]

Yep but I don't nessecarily see anything wrong with that. They provide a capchta service for free and you pay with your data/brainpower.

[@MonokhromatiQ]

@@Sirenhound It's understandable, you're just trying to halt the progress of our AI overlord

[@renakunisaki]

The great irony. Proving you aren't a robot while also teaching a robot how to pass the test.

[@jdbrinton]

"Sponsored by Dashlane. They can't help you with physical threats of violence."

[@captainheat2314]

Or countries that dont have much freedom

[@MadaxeMunkeee]

Yet 😈

[@realcartoongirl]

lmao

[@AlexandarHullRichter]

Sites should have a duress password. "Your password is eatsh**? Now I know somebody forced you to give your password, and I'm not showing your actual account until your actual password is used."

[@boggisthecat]

Alexandar Hull-Richter Yes, they should. Standard practice in sensitive jobs (banks, military, police...)

[@uranbilguunbadrah7320]

Making your viewers pay serious attention to your sponsorship segment of your videos is a serious skill.

[@atonurc]

4:25 “it's a machine learning system they're throwing everything into and they don’t know it works either”.

[@rougepilot5513]

In British prison: Crim: Hey, wacha in for, new guy? You: I didn't give the cops my password

[@LordBhorak]

I think that in Finland that is not the case. You cannot be made to do anything that would incriminate yourself, nor do you have to help the police in solving a crime you may or may not have done.

[@acbrown8201]

don't forget, brit police do not work to english law, but to the laws passed down for THEM to use... ever tried to arrest a cop breaking the law - breach of the peace? they hate independent action/initiative SO much they even have another name for citizens arrest - 'arrest by OTHER persons'! (emphrasis mine). THEY decide on whether you've been assaulted PURELY on THEIR ability to obtain a successful conviction! it's how police shooting/killing innocent tourist is NOT an unlawful incident!

[@dybiosol]

"Aye, me too mate!"

[@matan8074]

@@LordBhorak in the UK you still have a right to remain silent but in some they specific circumstances when ordered by a judge.

[@oz_jones]

@@MaximumJoy bobbies

[@WashingtonAI]

Police officer: "what's your name?" You: "uhhhh *thinks of easiest name to come up with* Tom scott.

[@MsZsc]

nyn

[@ZaHandle]

Bob Smith

[@Callie_Cosmo]

I’ve been doing captchas for 26 minutes now to get into steam on my new computer and every time I don’t get caught out by a single pixel and actually complete it I hit the button to get in and it slowly scrolls to the top of the page and says “bad captcha read” and uncheckes the captcha button and tells me to do it all over again

[@namanmishra703]

I usually just ignore sponsorships but this is the one that convinced me to *immediately* get a password manager. I use LastPass thank you very much :)

[@guillemvidal1958]

"Before you watch the video to make sure you are not a robot..." *sad robot noises*

[@kevintrang3007]

What is my purpose?

[@JimPlaysGames]

I wonder if at some point the captcha will say something like "which of these images causes you existential dread?" and they'll have to create sentient bots that fear death in order to solve them.

[@Fluxuation]

That was the greatest sponsor I’ve seen ever

[@drcphd]

Those CAPTCHA jobs got my grandmother out of abject poverty. Very clever.

[@simonscience5846]

"A site with some images people might want to see....." Ahhhh, you mean Corn Hub!

[@makatron]

Those kernels

[@turkoisevfx34]

@@makatron thicc kernels

[@addisonchan3053]

You mean Corn Pub

[@THEMASTER10121]

Lots of people at my school look at Corn Hub all the time in lessons 😂

[@TigruArdavi]

Corn Hub. 🤣 The Nebraska version of the site🤣

[@MasterJohnny007]

3:59 "have humans on standby"? Google: "We will just do captcha that even humans can't solve!" Genius!!! :(

[@tallmcsmif9472]

I really love you tubers that advertise for 3 min straight at the end of there videos, its fun

[@Nyaalexi]

I've seen a whole lot of videos on this lately, but so far yours is the best.

[@shadymilkman8635]

As a lvl 20 human i still haven’t ever solved the captcha with wiggly letters...

[@aingmaung5705]

As a solo levelling Human, I can pass only a car and a fire hydrant CAPTCHA s

[@masonhunter2748]

Aing Maung a bus is a big yellow car

[@th3kng276]

You need at least lvl 25 to unlock the captcha skill. I know, I also hate it when you get something but u can’t use it until u lvl up. Then again, maybe in 11 months you’ve leveled up 5 times

[@mattb4721]

@@masonhunter2748 "We’re not playing Yellow Car!" "You’re always playing Yellow Car."

[@incription]

I hate these, because I can never get them. Also the one where you have to wait for the images to disappear is actually disgusting

[@christianrasmussen1]

That's frustrating. Maybe they do it if they're extra suspicious of you. Slow enough to be bearable for humans, but would slow down bots significanly.

[@jlco]

Except it _isn't_ bearable for humans. It's absolutely terrible.

[@anty.]

that sounds like something a robot would say

[@thec-m]

I’ve had those captchas so many times before and it never stops being frustrating. I used to have to regularly access a site with one on a device with limited controls and it made it ten times more annoying when you are slowly moving the cursor from image to image and having to wait for each one to disappear. And then you complete it and it gives you another one. I’ve had 10+ in a row before...

[@750tiprogamer]

aLso when you fail and somehow you have to do like 5 in a row.

[@AmandeepSingh-xo2tb]

His tone of presenting facts is so humorous and sarcastic 😂

[@Pitachips22]

It really depends on mood for me whether I’m annoyed or think captcha is like a fun minigame

[@variousthings6470]

"In the late '90s, the most popular search engine was AltaVista" I think you'll find that, in the city of Pawnee, Indiana, it still is.

[@mychemicalbromance97]

and in Martinsvile, IN people are getting with the times and finally using AOL

[@kolive81]

Even though AltaVista sounds familiar, I don’t think I used it. I remember using Yahoo! and then switching to Google (because they weren’t evil but times change) and now it is DuckDuckGo and, if the results aren’t useful, Google.

[@camque3353]

laughs in yahoo

[@TheDylandProductions]

@@camque3353 laughs in bing

[@P4ncake_.]

This is funny how tom can make a sponsorship enjoyable

[@darladesautel]

fascinating! loved it

[@nathancarver7179]

I uh, found this one, called "H Captcha" and I'm not gonna lie, despite having 20/20 vision and being able to see all the lines just fine, I still failed that one.. several times, to be honest. I understand the necessity to stay safe from bots and whatnot, but.. when we can't even pass our own safety/security measures, perhaps there's a problem

[@gideon7212]

Hcaptcha has a service now called privacy pass, do it once and you get 30 captcha "credits" to your browser. Good way to do less captchas if you have 5 minutes to spend installing the extension and solving a few

[@pianopianist5709]

Right! I got one where I had to tell what the dress length was. Google, I'm not an expert.

[@wiltedangel]

apparently roblox's captcha used to be super hard, like 50 youtubers got locked out of their accounts bc they couldnt pass the captcha

[@Kuroshiro_]

When I log into google sometimes, there's a distorted text CAPTCHA and I cannot pass it no matter what I do. I'm just typing the letters that I see 😭

[@shapeswitch_mood7221]

Google before: "We're happy to announce that this Captcha version 2 will be revolutionary, and no more brain bending tests!" Google after realising it wasn't flawless: *"So now could you tell me in this picture of a cow where is the bus?"*

[@johnrussel9686]

No one talks how hard is roblox capatcha

[@ahmed4363]

@@johnrussel9686 what's that?

[@hazeltree7738]

@@ahmed4363 You have to spin colourless shapes of animals until they're the right way up, you have to do it quickly and get none of them wrong, even I can't do them sometimes because of how quick you have to be

[@siyacer]

@@hazeltree7738 not even animals, sometimes it can be dice with pictures on them or spheres

[@hysteri]

Russelle Santos I failed it twice and had to do like 8 of those stupid things

[@maxbloom4923]

2:30 real smooth tom. real smooth

[@sky_boy22]

everybody gangsta until a bot figures and passes captcha

[@BenchFox_]

2:26 "Some images that some people might wanna see." I see what you did there.

[@GTAandApplechannel]

Kanal Q and only human like that images

[@grindx1292]

Kanal Q i dont get it

[@finkyfamboni4333]

@@grindx1292 considering your name, your to young to know.

[@katyungodly]

GrindyGamer porn

[@buddy5196]

Multorum Unum Hold up.

[@nonnnth]

Given how many times reCAPTCHA v2 thought people were robots, I think nobody is allowed online any more.

[@Naitsabes68]

Conspiracy time: Google can choose websites where this secondary check appears more often to reduce (and i mean up to 10 image checks)

[@renakunisaki]

@@Naitsabes68 I think the site operator has some control over that? Some sites are definitely worse than others about it.

[@roguishpaladin]

@@Naitsabes68 No. Don't. Feel free to research that possibility privately, as it would be a valuable thing to research, but don't throw around wild conspiracy theories without a shred of proof. The world has enough problems of FUD, lack of credibility, and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

[@realcartoongirl]

@@renakunisaki i touch anime girls for breakfast

[@Blox117]

good afternoon, fellow bots

[@weirdboi3375]

2:48 what google sees on a tablet *human taps* 0 seconds later *cursor teleports* Google: hmmm that ‘human’ is sus let’s vote him off... *kicked from site*

[@ganii1804]

I'm not sure how to feel about an ever-growing invisible war between spam bots and captcha tests

[@neverluckym8728]

4:03 "So the end of 2019" Captions: "So at the end of 2018"

[@sophiegrey9576]

now we need ReCAPTIONS

[@joeyscerbo7776]

Sophie Grey 😂😂😂😂the best

[@marksilla8276]

I guess it didn't Captcha that well

[@ninja_raven256]

Captions are THAT dumb sometimes :D

[@PlaystationMasterPS3]

the bots know

[@wackyroo]

4:01 at the end of 2019? Are you a time traveler? Forget detecting a robot, how to detect a time traveler?

[@hugebuffman3619]

A time traveler would know about the future, so I guess Tom's a time traveler

[@NoNameAtAll2]

you just look for people who came to Hawking's time traveler party

[@vividandlucid]

Ask for their opinion on bowties

[@whatzittuuyah7640]

Of course Tom is a time traveller, is that even a question?

[@drpattiethomas]

This guy should be the next Doctor Who, except he's already Doctor Who.

[@kaythatslame]

Tom: you should get this if you are techy enough to watch these videos Me: bold of you to assume i know what I'm doing

[@Jonathan-kraai]

watching the basics series it becomes clear that the only real captcha is asking what 0.2 + 0.1 is.

[@rudrecciah]

Tom: "You could set up a website with images some people might like to see." Tom 2 seconds later: *Shows a picture of a cat* Tom's into cat girls confirmed

[@rudrecciah]

@@Noel-yh4xp did you understand the joke?

[@MandrakeGuy]

pig pen its okay you dont needa insult yourself

[@grantbmilburn]

A synonym for cat is also slang for..., er never mind, I'll explain when you're older.

[@QuaversASMR]

@@Noel-yh4xp r/wooosh

[@Steamlazer]

@@Noel-yh4xp Tom was clearly talking about p0rn, and the video showed a cat, soooo

[@MartinInBC]

Police: "What's your password?" Me: "If I knew that, why would I have all these post-it notes?"

[@itsdinosaurtime]

Oh, your human? Name every picture with a firetruck

[@lilia3944]

Captchas are always fun bc the computer doesn't know what of these blurry images contains a train, but neither do I

[@Ryduris]

After you used the text ReCaptcha a lot, it became easy enough to tell which word you'd need to write correctly, based on the way the words were "twisted". For the other word, you could type literally whatever, so on imageboards where you had to type a captcha every time you wanted to post, it became a common past time to just write obscenities for the other word, in hopes of it making into the scanning system.

[@stevethepocket]

I'm assuming they would feed the same word to dozens, maybe even hundreds of users to make sure they could get a consensus. Not even to deal with trolls, just to make sure there weren't any mistakes.

[@JackBessant]

The only proof you can provide for us is to complete a captcha, sorry

[@johnfoltz8183]

Corporate wants you to find the differences between both pictures: Me:. They're both the same picture.

[@tr0_0rt]

"I'm not a robot" sounds exactly what a robot would say.

[@gavinstanley3883]

ReCaptcha: Tick the boxes Me: Ticks the boxes ReCaptcha: Sorry, you didn't do it quick enough ReCaptcha: Put a square around the word Me: Puts a square around the word ReCaptcha: Sorry, you did that incorrectly ReCaptcha: Look at the image Me: Looks at the image ReCaptcha: Well done! But we apologise, as we are struggling to connect to the Internet. You need to complete the Captcha again.

[@saadmanmahfuz]

breh

[@ecave3435]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@StudyingIsFun]

Yikes

[@arandomguywithagreenprofil5075]

So true

[@peter4999]

Gonna be honest. I think I'm a robot, cause sometimes I struggle too much with those picture ones.

[@krashd]

I don't know if Captchas display in languages other than English or if they always display in English, but I have already gotten a few wrong despite being a native English speaker because they have asked for things that are common to Americans but not common to Brits. For example I got one asking me to identify 'crosswalks', I deducted that a crosswalk must be a 'zebra crossing' (white and black stripes on the road), I clicked all the ones I saw but somehow still failed. Also the one Tom mentioned in the video about fire hydrants, you would need to have a rudimentary knowledge of the US to get that one since fire hydrants in Europe are hidden from view - they are all beneath the pavement (sidewalk) with just a small 'H' printed nearby on a wall or short sign that only firefighters are trained to look out for. If a kid got that Captcha they would be clueless as to what a hydrant was.

[@AiraDelasse]

Well, this aged badly, now that Tom Scott has sort of been a robot

[@petoxeye]

Thanks for letting us know.