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Q&A Cloudflare Captcha - which tests are actually important?

It seems like Cloudflare Captcha (which appears to be using Google reCaptcha) shows two types of challenge: One where it's a single image broken up into tiles, and one where every tile comes from a...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question cloudflare captcha
#2: Post edited by user avatar matthewsnyder‭ · 2024-08-13T16:54:24Z (4 months ago)
  • It seems like Cloudflare Captcha shows two types of challenge: One where it's a single image broken up into tiles, and one where every tile comes from a separate image.
  • The single image usually gives an option to skip it. From this, I assume that the captcha first shows a "free work" image - the system doesn't know the correct answer, but is trying to get humans to label it for free by pretending it's part of the test. For the multi-image one, there is no option to skip and answering correctly seems required to pass it.
  • Is this true? What is the single image test used for?
  • It seems like Cloudflare Captcha (which appears to be using Google reCaptcha) shows two types of challenge: One where it's a single image broken up into tiles, and one where every tile comes from a separate image.
  • The single image usually gives an option to skip it. From this, I assume that the captcha first shows a "free work" image - the system doesn't know the correct answer, but is trying to get humans to label it for free by pretending it's part of the test. For the multi-image one, there is no option to skip and answering correctly seems required to pass it.
  • Is this true? What is the single image test used for?
#1: Initial revision by user avatar matthewsnyder‭ · 2024-08-13T16:54:00Z (4 months ago)
Cloudflare Captcha - which tests are actually important?
It seems like Cloudflare Captcha shows two types of challenge: One where it's a single image broken up into tiles, and one where every tile comes from a separate image.

The single image usually gives an option to skip it. From this, I assume that the captcha first shows a "free work" image - the system doesn't know the correct answer, but is trying to get humans to label it for free by pretending it's part of the test. For the multi-image one, there is no option to skip and answering correctly seems required to pass it.

Is this true? What is the single image test used for?