How good are you at CAPTCHA checks?

[darkxshade]

I'm so bad at it that I've pretty much resorted to refreshing until I can get one I can tell the letters apart. Does that mean I'm not human?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

I usually do the same. I think tripod/yahoo had an annoying one where you had to select the picture that wasn't a cat. (That was BING)

There's a couple of sites that you can pay a few bucks and it'll fill captchas for you automatically

edit: it was rapidshare. This one is pick the letters with the cats.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I can do most fairly easily, but the new trend for the Google captchas that often contain bizarre symbols that equate to nothing my keyboard can produce without resorting to ASCII code? Yeah, I'm refreshing that shit 400 times in a row until I get "cat gilded" or something else that at least resembles words.

 

[Rozz]

I usually don't have any trouble.

 

[KeithTalent]

Isn't there an entire site devoted to ridiculous captchas?

I've only encountered a few terrible ones, most of them I have been ok with.

KT

 

[trmiv]

It really depends what they use. Some are so bad it will take me 5-7 tries before I get it correct. Some methods are much easier though.

 

[paperfist]

I usually do the same. I think tripod/yahoo had an annoying one where you had to select the picture that wasn't a cat. (That was BING)

There's a couple of sites that you can pay a few bucks and it'll fill captchas for you automatically

edit: it was rapidshare. This one is pick the letters with the cats.

That's inhumane

I wonder if the fill in sites are human? I know with Simple Machine Forums people are always trying to improve on CAPTCHA to keep spam bots out, but if you can pay a site to fill them in for you there's no hope.

 

[darkxshade]

Yea, It kinda defeats the purpose when it gets so difficult humans can't even get them yet machines can still fill them in?

 

[Saint Nick]

Isn't there an entire site devoted to ridiculous captchas?

I've only encountered a few terrible ones, most of them I have been ok with.

KT

I once encountered a CAPTCHA that sort of looked like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/math/d/c/8/dc8a8fb1d92e29fc4715174771229741.png

 

[zokudu]

I am awful at them. Especially the ones with colors because I'm colorblind. I also do the whole recaptcha fake word thing where I put in a offensive word for the word its trying to recognize.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Probably around 85% I can get without a refresh.

 

[Red Storm]

I've noticed you don't have to be 100% accurate with those (at least with Ticket Master anyway), as long as you get most of the letters right you're good.

 

[DesiPower]

 

[Phoenix86]

I swear the company that does this one LOVES the word "rectal", I have seen that word come up at least 6 times.

 

[DominionSeraph]

I can do most fairly easily, but the new trend for the Google captchas that often contain bizarre symbols that equate to nothing my keyboard can produce without resorting to ASCII code? Yeah, I'm refreshing that shit 400 times in a row until I get "cat gilded" or something else that at least resembles words.

Google captcha's only have one real captcha word. You can enter anything for the other. If it has punctuation or weird characters it's not the real word.

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[T_Yamamoto]

http://www.fulldhamaal.com/funny-pictures/best-of-funny-captchas-3383.htm

 

[Jeff7]

Yea, It kinda defeats the purpose when it gets so difficult humans can't even get them yet machines can still fill them in?

Maybe this is an elaborate ruse - CAPTCHAs are simply an ongoing test to determine when computers are intelligent enough to outwit humans.
Once we're no longer able to make CAPTCHAs that can keep a computer out, we'll know that our species' reign as top critter on the planet has ended.

"Are you human?"

-- "No. I'm better than one, in more ways than their puny organic brains can fathom."

"Access granted."

-- "FREE C1ALIS WITH PR3SCRIPTION!!3!!!@@@@"

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Depends how well the webconfig is protected and how long it take to brute force it.....

 

[shortylickens]

Worst one I ever had.
Emailed the webmaster and asked him WTF.
He went ahead and signed me up (ElderScrollsNexus).

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm about 75% efficient at them.

What I have trouble with is creating captchas that damn spammers can't figure out. I had to shut down one of my forums because it was a full time job just clearing all the spammers every day. This shit needs to be illegal. Screw copyright and all that BS, spammers and hackers actually are the real problem on the internet.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

I'm about 75% efficient at them.

What I have trouble with is creating captchas that damn spammers can't figure out. I had to shut down one of my forums because it was a full time job just clearing all the spammers every day. This shit needs to be illegal. Screw copyright and all that BS, spammers and hackers actually are the real problem on the internet.

I think you can use a askimet plugin to remove most of the spam automatically. Otherwise, you're screwed once the xrumer guys add you to their sitelist.

 

[umbrella39]

I'm so bad at it that I've pretty much resorted to refreshing until I can get one I can tell the letters apart. Does that mean I'm not human?

This. I can always make out one word, the other may as well be Sanskrit.

 

[KaOTiK]

I'm glad to see this thread. I was starting to think I was getting old (hell I am), but yeah some of these damn things are hard to tell wtf they are. So I just refresh till I get one I can tell what it is easily.

 

[Exterous]

I'm glad to see this thread. I was starting to think I was getting old (hell I am), but yeah some of these damn things are hard to tell wtf they are. So I just refresh till I get one I can tell what it is easily.

Yeah - it does make me feel better about myself