'I am not a robot' [Recaptcha validation questions when using the BA website]
Feb 15, 2017, 2:48 pm
#153
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Programs: BA Oneworld
Posts: 582
Validation question - Recaptcha - BA site entry
Per the title, this is with regard to the validation process to access the BA site, which I get nearly all the time if I use the site very often.
Are the images generated (from google streetview?) entirely random I have always assumed so, when I am asked to identify squares with house numbers, or store fronts, or street signs in places that look like Asia or whatever.
So, given this assumption of random image, can you image my complete surprise on being presented with an image that contains a street sign for my own road! What are the odds?
Are the images generated (from google streetview?) entirely random I have always assumed so, when I am asked to identify squares with house numbers, or store fronts, or street signs in places that look like Asia or whatever.
So, given this assumption of random image, can you image my complete surprise on being presented with an image that contains a street sign for my own road! What are the odds?
Feb 15, 2017, 2:59 pm
#154
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Oxford
Programs: Skyteam Elite+, VS Red, HHonours Diamond, Accor Plat
Posts: 629
According to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html the images are indeed from Streetview. Several hundred million reCAPTCHAs are shown to users every day.
IANAS (I am not a statistician) but my gut feeling is that the chances of getting one from your own street must be small. Very small. Really, very, very small indeed!
Buy a lottery ticket.
IANAS (I am not a statistician) but my gut feeling is that the chances of getting one from your own street must be small. Very small. Really, very, very small indeed!
Buy a lottery ticket.
Feb 16, 2017, 12:08 am
#155
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Brighton, UK
Programs: BA Gold, IC Ambassador, HH Gold, SPG Gold, Fairmont Platinum
Posts: 3,166
Particularly if your street does not feature shop fronts or palm trees, which seem to the ones I am always asked to mark!!!!
Feb 16, 2017, 2:54 am
#157
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,060
According to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html the images are indeed from Streetview. Several hundred million reCAPTCHAs are shown to users every day.
IANAS (I am not a statistician) but my gut feeling is that the chances of getting one from your own street must be small. Very small. Really, very, very small indeed!
Buy a lottery ticket.
IANAS (I am not a statistician) but my gut feeling is that the chances of getting one from your own street must be small. Very small. Really, very, very small indeed!
Buy a lottery ticket.
Aug 28, 2017, 4:28 pm
#159
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Cape Town
Programs: BA Exec Gold , Qatar Priviledge Club Plat
Posts: 1,584
I find it only pops up when loggin out and re logging in again multiple times within a 24 hr period or when doing lots of redemption searchs. Very annoying thou !
Aug 28, 2017, 4:39 pm
#160
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: UK
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Aug 28, 2017, 4:51 pm
#161
Join Date: Dec 2013
Programs: BA GCH
Posts: 89
I always use the same computer; they know what I book and do - further IT failings I feel.
Sort it out BA #29387428374 .