Captcha complaint

[flex capacitor]

I've been using this site http://superuser.com/ and whenever it asks me to verify that I'm a human it shows me a captcha form.

These are waaay too complicated. I have to refresh 3 or 4 times to see some text that's not completely warped beyond recognition. So I've suffered through it time and time again. Possibly in the last 6 months or a year they've gotten more complicated. I just tried to use the audio feature and it's like the words are playing backwards. Can you guys please make these things less of a pain? For arguments sake, captcha may turn away spammers but now I'm starting to hate going to sites that use it.

[NanaSharon]

I totally agree...I haven' posted on my site yet because every site I find it on I have difficulty reading it and getting it to accept my entry - so why make depressed people go through this?

[William Nettmann]

I have the same feeling - the words have definitely become more contorted and difficult to read over the last 6 months or a year. I am probably going to abandon the service on my websites and use something else.

[Rick]

I have the same complaint, as do all my friends (the three or so who've mentioned anything about reCAPTCHA). They're excessively distorted. I just failed my third try. It's ridiculous! 

[flex capacitor]

I came across another one today and had an idea. I think when we come across another distorted image we should take screen shots. We can post them here (thread or forum).

FYI For Mac you can take a screen shot with CMD + SHIFT + 4. That will change the cursor to a cross-hair. Then hold the mouse down and drag a rectangle around the area you want to capture. When you release the mouse it will make a snapshot sound and the image will appear on the desktop. I'm not sure what the Windows snapshot option is.

[Adrian Godong]

FYI, that's exactly what spammers do. Get a copy of the reCAPTCHA
image, post them somewhere else for others to solve, and then send the
solution back to reCAPTCHA for validation.

Obviously, their methods are far superior than yours (most likely
fully automated) and has been proven effective to bypass any kind of
CAPTCHA (not just reCAPTCHA).

You can hit the Print Screen key to take a screen shot in Windows, or
use the built-in Snipping Tool.

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[jude]

Oh. I didn't know that. It kind of defeats the purpose. I mentioned it because I was thinking of taking screen shots to display how difficult they've gotten. If someone at the captcha company is reading this thread they could see for themselves how much of an issue it has become.

[philosophystephen]

Yeah Captcha tends to be a big fat pain in the backside. I found one nice Captcha site that makes really simple and effective Captcha but for some reason not many companies are using it. 

[Michael]

I agree with you. Its just wrong to make us keep hitting refresh. I can't buy tickets online now from ticket. because you made it so hard to read!!!!

[oggo loggo]

On Friday, August 31, 2012 11:37:58 PM UTC+2, flex capacitor wrote:

I've been using this site http://superuser.com/ and whenever it asks me to verify that I'm a human it shows me a captcha form.

These are waaay too complicated. I have to refresh 3 or 4 times to see some text that's not completely warped beyond recognition. So I've suffered through it time and time again. Possibly in the last 6 months or a year they've gotten more complicated. I just tried to use the audio feature and it's like the words are playing backwards. Can you guys please make these things less of a pain? For arguments sake, captcha may turn away spammers but now I'm starting to hate going to sites that use it.

Agreed. Captcha have gone way overboard, and is bothering more people than it is helping.

[beegold422]

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 9:01:37 PM UTC-4, flex capacitor wrote:

Oh. I didn't know that. It kind of defeats the purpose. I mentioned it because I was thinking of taking screen shots to display how difficult they've gotten. If someone at the captcha company is reading this thread they could see for themselves how much of an issue it has become.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Adrian Godong <adrian...@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI, that's exactly what spammers do. Get a copy of the reCAPTCHA
image, post them somewhere else for others to solve, and then send the
solution back to reCAPTCHA for validation.

Obviously, their methods are far superior than yours (most likely

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Every time I use capcha, I type in the correct letters and I am asked to do it again....and again, ....and again.  Anyone know how to fix this??!!

[flex capacitor]

I'm not sure yet but they seem to be a tad bit more legible in the last few weeks. 

However if they're not I suggest maybe contacting the site owners and letting them know when it's difficult to read it's preventing people from using their site. 

It would be nice if the Captcha people would at least respond one way or another rather than say nothing. 

On Thursday, November 8, 2012 2:10:49 PM UTC-6, Kesani Devadas wrote:

Yep - it was indecipherable - but they seem to have changed it back - thank the heavans

[Narayan Nair]

Hello,

I created recaptcha, but continue to get this problem of user. What could be the issue? please can anyone help

The user, and domain all are correct. In bootstrap the keys are installed correct as well

[kvch...@gmail.com]

We always facing to Google Captcha  now we are so more frustrated from google Captcha . now we have to decide we will take all paid service from Bing And Yandex . because both provide to essay to understand Captcha process . ...........................

we want say also friends now you should get all free or paid services from another search engine . because now ad day google giving to more problem .   

[kvch...@gmail.com]

We always facing to Google Captcha  now we are so more frustrated from google Captcha . now we have to decide we will take all paid service from Bing And Yandex . because both provide to essay to understand Captcha process . ...........................

we want say also friends now you should get all free or paid services from another search engine . because now ad day google giving to more problem .   

On Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:07:58 UTC+5:30, flex capacitor wrote:

[ஆல் இன் ஆல் ஆன்லைன் ஜாப்ஸ்]

Same problem me too here today. Very very nonsense captchas. I refreshed more than 20 times but still it showing please try again.Voice captcha are also not playing. I don't expect like this poor captcha service from Google products.Not only today I am facing this problem since several months.

Lot of my online works suffered due to this problem.It is really makes me much pain when try to solve this recaptchas.

Please try to change your captcha models.

[Rustin Crocker]

[rockd...@gmail.com]

Totally agree. It's no longer even a turing test.