Monday, October 10, 2011

Retype My Captcha


You know what really Grinds My Gears? Captchas. How many times have you failed to put in the correct password and ran into one of these bad boys? trying to read what they say and retype it is one of the most annoying things on the web. These bending, and poorly written letters are called Captchas. A Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person. Now i understand the security measures that are being taken into effect here but cmon man. Make these bad boys reasonable enough for us humans to read! Now i know that every single person who has used the internet has eventually, or will eventually stumble upon one of these guys and it will throw them for a loop. While sometimes they aren't terrible, most of the time they are difficult to read and unreasonable. There has to be a better way to test if the user is human or not...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
http://www.johnmwillis.com/other/top-10-worst-captchas/

2 comments:

  1. I totally agree! I really don't like these things...especially because to comment on these blogs you have to use a captcha if you want to comment using your Google account.

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  2. This also frustrates me. I don't really understand how this is such a big deal proving that I am a human. It seems pointless and a little repetitive.

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