This captcha thing is absolute RUBBISH

[Dawko]

This captcha thing is so irritating. It doesn't work. How does anybody read these words to gain entrance to any website.

It is rubbish

It doesn't work

It puts people off of the websites that use it

It raises my blood pressure

What's wrong with just using passwords

Stop developing this pile of POO

Life is too short to mess around with this RUBBISH

[philosophystephen]

You have my sympathy; captcha can be really annoying especially when its impossible to read. There are some really good captcha developers out there but the problem is that there not so well known. One example is adscaptcha. This is image based and can be completed in about 2 seconds (probably less tbh). It works because it requires the individual to recognise an image (such as a well-known company logo, or a famous brand name) which AI obviusly can't do. I can't understand why more people don't use it for their sites, especially since bloggers get paid for each captcha that gets solved. 

Stephen

[Bhoodev Singh]

I agreed. I got annoyed multiple times as well. I don't understand, what is the fun of displaying words which can not be read. I think it's wasting of customer's time and probably there are good chances that companies might lose their valuable customers. Try building this tool your own, it should not be that difficult to write the code and map it to the site.  

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[Jake Qz]

I totally agree, though your point about passwords seems wrong (read on).

I removed reCaptcha from a website I was running last year, replacing it with a simple but clearly typed 5 alphanumeric characters on a faded image background.

There is a need for a minimal level of protection to prevent search bots (Google, Baidu, Yahoo, Bing, etc) and spam bots (software with dubious intent, possibly running from infected computers without the owners' knowledge) putting random stuff in the form and literally virtually clicking 'submit'.  In our case (and quite commonly) the form would send an email, and may perform other server-side tasks.  So there is good reason to prevent non-humans from using it (the major search bots nowadays tend to avoid virtually submitting forms, but may do so from time to time in case it reaches a page that would otherwise be inaccessible).

On Saturday, 1 September 2012 16:49:20 UTC+1, Dawko wrote:

What's wrong with just using passwords

A password for what, exactly?  The captchas are commonly used on websites where you don't have an account and password, and quite often as part of the process of setting up and account so that you won't have to go through a captcha again on that site.

But quite often you're, say, booking tickets for an event on a website you'll never visit again.  So why create an account and password, wait for the confirmation email, unearth it from the spam folder, just so you can continue with the purchase?

The big problem with reCaptcha now is that it is unusable from a user perspective. It says: "type the two words."  One of them is usually a word, but the other is just a random combination of characters I wish I could use in Scrabble.  It claims to have an audio version for the visually impaired.  That should be a good thing as some people do use screen readers.

But it's shot itself in the foot by being too cumbersome.  Even the inventors haven't commented about it since 2009, no doubt through shame.  Websites which still use it are either no longer maintained (so your submission will be falling on deaf ears anyway), or do not deserve to be visited.  Please note that this applies only to websites using "reCaptcha" (or the original "captcha")---as I stated above some level of protection is usually necessary.

After we replaced reCaptcha with a much simpler Turing Test, submissions increased by about 50% from humans, whilst remaining at zero from bots.  The Turing Test is meant to allow humans through, but reCaptcha seems to be more stringent than U.S. Immigration.

"Stop Spam, Read Books"---really, I could have read several more books had I not wasted a significant portion of my life solving captchas, or writing this post about it.  Is this some kind of sick joke?

J_

[Nizaris]

if you tried to use your brain (i know it's hard) you would realize that passwords wouldn't work in this case. If you have a better idea as a Turing Test plz enlighten us oh great one.