Captcha codes or whatever they are called

jas72

jas72

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Don't you hate websites that make it more and more difficult for you to search or in some cases even post.

Captcha or whatever it's called does my head right in. Also their codes are getting more and more obscure what started off as a colour blinds
nightmare has turned in to a game of pictonary for the average user.

I hate em and wanna start a parliamentary petition to get them banned from the UK who's with me?
 
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Raist said:
They're annoying, but as a forum administrator I also know they're necessary. The bots are way more annoying than an occassional Captcha.
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Whilst I understand what you mean, they are not necessary all the time, there are systems in place which can filter spam very well, such as akismet. Not only that but captchas are not foolproof either.

I do share the OP's feelings though, sometimes they're impossible to read, and other times you have to enter multiple captchas for one form if you got some piece of information wrong etc.

The only thing I hate more than bad captchas are age checks on videos.
 
Mr-White said:
i had to google what they were :(

MW
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An IT analyst needing to google what a CAPTCHA code is... Well it's...

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Skyfall said:
Whilst I understand what you mean, they are not necessary all the time, there are systems in place which can filter spam very well, such as akismet. Not only that but captchas are not foolproof either.

I do share the OP's feelings though, sometimes they're impossible to read, and other times you have to enter multiple captchas for one form if you got some piece of information wrong etc.

The only thing I hate more than bad captchas are age checks on videos.
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Yeah on forms it's worse and when your info isn't cached it's back to square one.

How many times I've wished there was an ARRRRRRRRRRGH button on every keyboard :D
 
You know the ones with 2 words?

One word is generated and known by the server, the other is scanned from a book, and some OCR software is in 2 minds about what word it is. What you typed is reported back, so long as you get the generated word right.

Yes, you are proving you are human and doing usefull work at the same time, even if you didn't know it.
 
BigglesPiP said:
You know the ones with 2 words?

One word is generated and known by the server, the other is scanned from a book, and some OCR software is in 2 minds about what word it is. What you typed is reported back, so long as you get the generated word right.

Yes, you are proving you are human and doing usefull work at the same time, even if you didn't know it.
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At least them codes are easy to read most of the time!
It's a nightmare if you have to enter a CAPTCHA code on gmail :eek:
 
Google are trialling a new system where all you have to do is turn a picture the right way up.

Whether it stands up to the current hack is yet to be seen. Where a dodgy site presents it's users with a capcha from another site that it's trying to DOS.
 
I can understand them from a business perspective. I've got the intention of having a (basic) captcha code on my business site as I want to give the option of uploading files for email so its more as a security measure.

Although they can be a tad irritating when it takes 20 goes to get by them or even better when you cant actually read the damn text they want you to enter :rolleyes:
 
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