Image Verification (captcha) Are fucking SHIT

[dlx1]

Image Verification
Please read the text in the image opposite, then type that text into the box below. You are asked to do this in order to verify that this registration is not being performed by an automated process.

Yes I could do that if the fuking letter were clear and strage not fucking odd font & italic.
is that an 8 6 or a B H M or a fuking W

what the point of an Image Verification?

 

[bmd]

Yes I could do that if the fuking letter were clear and strage not fucking odd font & italic.
is that an 8 6 or a B H M or a fuking W

what the point of an Image Verification?

To stop scripts filling in these forms millons of times apparently, why anyone would want to download anything over and over and why every fucking website form on the net has to have them now is a mystery to me.

 

[Loki]

It's to stop spambots innit. I can see it could be a problem for dyslexic people - hell I'm not dyslexic and I get the image verification wrong sometimes - but what else can you do.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

They are a problem for blind people as well, never mind the colour-blind.

 

[miss minnie]

the sysadmin can usually change the font, size and colours - complain and let them know!

i hate the stupid things too, they have stopped me registering on a couple of sites.

 

[miss minnie]

mod snap!

 

[chio]

The gmail one has a little icon next to it which will make your computer read out a series of numbers - but they're still garbled and hard to hear.

 

[gnoriac]

They're a problem for well-sighted people too! But if you're f**ked off about it please point your anger at the loving, friendly spamming community.

 

[toggle]

It's to stop spambots innit. I can see it could be a problem for dyslexic people - hell I'm not dyslexic and I get the image verification wrong sometimes - but what else can you do.

Thing is, they stop the idiots, but they don't really have that much effect if the bot writer knows what they are doing.

 

[subversplat]

The world needs more Kitten Auth

At least you get to go "Aww" when doing drudgery.

 

[EastEnder]

They are a problem for blind people as well, never mind the colour-blind.

Now therein lies the ultimate challenge for some bright spark....

They may be highly annoying, but sadly there are gazillions of irksome types who would otherwise use automated scripts to register millions of times with sites - usually in an attempt to discover existing accounts for exploitation purposes or to abuse free services that are meant for limited use (such as information lookup services).

Hence the use of verification mechanisms that are intended to specifically block the efforts of automated readers of any kind.

So, how would one design a system that explicitly requires an unimpeded persons sensory abilities, but which doesn't discriminate against people who do have impeded senses.....

If you can solve that and licence the end result, you'd be quids in!

 

[dlx1]

Google you fucking piece of shit you wanky cunt fuck you and the stupid disable sign don't help Stephen Hawking sound better.

I would email you cunts if it wasn't so fucking hard to find an email address.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=contact_policy

edit: maybe I shouldn't call google peps cunts

 

[FridgeMagnet]

hahahahaha

Google are awful though. Blogger CAPTCHAs are incomprehensible half the time.

 

[bingiman]

Spam is horrible, CAPTCHA is worse, but RE-CAPTCHA which is the audio version aimed at the visually impaired manages takes the biscuit.

IMO Anti-spam questions on registration are better at weeding out the automated bots.

i.e what is first letter of the word anarchist
(always remembering to allow users both combinations A and a

The questions need to be changed regularly as the answers get sold and passed on.

<<The only good thing I ever heard about CAPTCHA was a radio program where they were saying that they were using the power of everyone using the CAPTCHA mechanism to digitise old print content. So the image you were seeing was part of a fragment of a whole text but together our entries ended up translating the whole book>>

but I haven't seen anything else about that since

 

[dlx1]

still not found email address to google.
no it not [email protected]

 

[bingiman]

What are you trying to do on google when you get image verification?

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

opening an account on gmail or any of their services requires you do this. But they are really the most awful captchas I have seen, difficult enough for someone without issues reading. For the dyslexic or elderly it's impossible and the sound files are indecipherable.

I have some contacts there. I'll try and get a response from them.

 

[sumimasen]

I hate verification codes, some of them are impossible.

I always thought a good one would be something simply written in a jazzy font like

1 + 2 + 5 - 2

The sum is the answer. Very quick and easy.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

something that requires a modicum of intelligence that can't be found in spambots could be good. Say a series of pictures and a question saying click on the ball/umbrella/cat/whatever.
Of course for those visually impared they need to work on the speech captures because they really don't work that well, or at least to my untrained ear I find them impossible.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I hate verification codes, some of them are impossible.

I always thought a good one would be something simply written in a jazzy font like

1 + 2 + 5 - 2

The sum is the answer. Very quick and easy.

too easy some basic ocr and maths could do that
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what you want is something that is simple for humans and difficult for computers

such as cat or dog... 4 out of 5 of these images are cats.. which one is a dog