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| Thread ID: 116125 | 2011-02-17 21:42:00 | Please use simple Capcthas | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1179323 | 2011-02-17 21:42:00 | I wish those captchas were easier to read. You may have come across the captchas that the Herald and other sites use. The red one and the blue one. They ask you to enter two words as a spam protection. fair enough. I have a captcha on my website But those two are so hard to use, for a start most of the words are not even words, they are on crazy angles, and have formatting and punctuation that makes it very hard to decide what to enter. And it means that one has to try several ties. Can't they just use a simple catpatcha? I mean they are not nuclear power stations they are trying to protect. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1179324 | 2011-02-17 22:02:00 | Yeah but OCR technology is getting *so* good these days ... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1179325 | 2011-02-17 22:35:00 | Many sites allow you to choose another if you can't read the first. Perhaps you need to look for that option? | Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1179326 | 2011-02-18 00:13:00 | These are most likely good at establishing that it is a human and not an automated computer programme entering the page or trying to sign in. I have to agree though that the letters and numbers are sometimes hard to read. Mostly if this happens you can try again with newly created letters and numbers. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1179327 | 2011-02-18 00:47:00 | I recently got a captcha wrong 10 times (literally) on Ticket Direct before one finally worked. | Siobhan Keogh (16063) | ||
| 1179328 | 2011-02-18 01:00:00 | Opera has so many issues with captchas over the years. You couldn't register on some forum (those free hosted forum especially) just because of that, comment on blogs... Nothing would help. Had to use FF to get past that. JDownloader can't read the latest captchas, mind you, neither can I. The price we have to pay because of spam :( |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1179329 | 2011-02-18 01:46:00 | ...........and yet I believe that a captcha for first time or ever second time posters here on Press F1 would kill a lot of the early AM spam and adverts that I get to see whilst youse guys are all still counting sugar plum fairies - or perambulating sheep, er --- perambulating. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1179330 | 2011-02-18 02:05:00 | We have a cunning question instead of a captcha: img137.imageshack.us | Cato (6936) | ||
| 1179331 | 2011-02-18 02:24:00 | We have a cunning question instead of a captcha: img137.imageshack.us Geeee-zzzzz, I guess a lot of computers know it's the Ha' Penny I guess. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1179332 | 2011-02-18 02:31:00 | Geeee-zzzzz, I guess a lot of computers know it's the Ha' Penny I guess. We did have a farthing once. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
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