Yahoo Japan now authenticating... and requiring a Kanji or voice response

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Well, this sucks…

I have a YAJ account but no payment info tied to it… so it has no transactions. I use it to look at auction bid history. It has been perfectly fine since I created it about 8 years ago.

Today… I go to look at the bidding history of an auction, and I’m now seeing this:

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Basically, it looks like my access to bidding history is finished. I can’t respond in Kanji. And of course voice? That won’t work as well–I don’t speak Japanese.

I don’t know what triggers this to happen, but if you’re like me and have a YAJ account… you may find yourself facing this same problem as well (that is, if you don’t have a Japanese character set available on your device or speak Japanese). Of course, with an English keyboard, there’s no way I could figure out what characters were assigned to what keys… plus, I can’t even make out what they are based on the the technique of image mangling going on.

THIS SUCKS!

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Aw man, that does suck! :-1: :-1:

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Maybe not, but you can use an online keyboard to type and copy the characters

E.g. Japanese Keyboard - 日本語のキーボード - Type Japanese Online

And if you’re on a mac you can enable “speak selection” somewhere in the acessibility settings. Possibly Gemini AI can speak it too.

Also, if you go to your mac’s Terminal you can use the unix command say [text] and the computer will speak it for you (which is basically the same as “speak selection” but without the graphical user interface)

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The trouble is, I don’t know Japanese. So with these distorted images… I can’t make out what the characters actually are. I can’t just copy/paste to find them either–it’s an image.

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I can read some basic Japanese and this Captcha is still hard to make out:
らよのおふいやんでふ

Just for fun, I gave it to ChatGPT and it failed after 2 characters.

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