Captchas

Van Hellseek · 21 Aug 2012 at 21:46

Keycaptcha or solvemedia (or other)?

Personally I think solvemedia is infinately better since it's never difficult to read. I can typically get past solvemedia in 2-4 seconds, but keycaptcha often takes 10+ due to needing to refresh it until it displays something readable.

What do you use on your sites, and are you happy with it?

Van Hellseek · 21 Aug 2012 at 22:26

You don't make money from these 'random question' things though.

The solvemedia subliminal advertising is interesting. Like "enter the product slogan to continue".

The best way to remember something is to write it after all!

(captchas are not just about preventing bot spam)

Van Hellseek · 21 Aug 2012 at 22:34

www.tinypic.com

Upload a pic there (solvemedia) and tell me you were frustrated.

Van Hellseek · 22 Aug 2012 at 00:14

Keycaptcha is the worst. Yet it seems the most popular. :/

Van Hellseek · 27 Aug 2012 at 10:39

Craig321 said:
Probably wouldn't take too much work to set up a fairly successful OCR bot though.

They're difficult to read so you can't use OCR on them.

I'm sure they've thought of that. And the above site wouldn't use it if it was that easy.

Looks easy, yes. But is it actually?

Van Hellseek · 28 Aug 2012 at 05:46

So why would a relatively large site like tinypic use it then? They originally used keycaptcha, but switched to solvemedia at least a year ago. If it was really that easy for bots to bypass they wouldn't use it.

Also, you think www.solvemedia.com hasn't already thought of this? :confused:

Van Hellseek · 29 Aug 2012 at 04:55

sniffy said:
It's pretty simple really: if you as a human find it easy to read then it's relatively easy to create a program to solve them.

All I'm going to say about it is; solvemedia know more than both you or I about this. And if it was really that simple they would do things differently.