This is the worst image verifiction check EVAR, try it if you don't believe me

[HamburgerBoy]

I have seen much worse.

TWBM4V. Easy.

 

[lupi]

if ever someone needed to DIAF, it would be whomever designed that god forsaken concept.

 

[shortylickens]

TWBM4V. Easy.

Third from the end turned out to be an N. And the first one was apparently an A.

 

[StageLeft]

That one looks ok but I have visited another site that constantly take me about 4-5 tries to get it right, fvcking insanely annoying.

 

[RedArmy]

Third from the end turned out to be an N. And the first one was apparently an A.

I could've gotten all the characters except the first one. How the HELL is that supposed to represent an 'A'?

 

[StageLeft]

I have seen much worse.

FVCK whoever came up with that should be hanged.

 

[Ayah]

FVCK whoever came up with that should be hanged.

They could've been colourblind and just randomly picking colours in paint.

 

[shortylickens]

I could've gotten all the characters except the first one. How the HELL is that supposed to represent an 'A'?

I'm pretty sure if you're Charles Manson you can see it.

 

[theflyingpig]

I hated that bullshit rapidshare did with fucking kittens and goddamn dogs rotated every which way.

 

[dighn]

Third from the end turned out to be an N. And the first one was apparently an A.

I'm just not seeing the A. I tried, really hard. It's impossible D:

and yes captch is the work of the devil. it's right up there with blister packaging on my hate-o-mater.

 

[geno]

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/recaptcha-paint.php

 

[ScottyB]

I hate Google's clusterfuck orgy of letters they use.

 

[BeauJangles]

those are easy. I don't think you even need to get them perfect...

With Recaptcha, only one of them is actually a test. The other word is one that cannot be OCRed by computers, so you're guess is added to other people's guesses to help determine what the word might be.

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah... the Microsoft Live captchas are worse!

 

[FoBoT]

i just found a hard one, seagate web site, wanted to check warranty status for a hard drive, had to reload it 3 times

 

[Arkitech]

Are you a robot?

damn, my cover is blown

 

[Corporate Thug]

looks pretty standard

 

[TridenT]

Some aren't too easy - but they don't generate those randomly, at least not both.
That's ReCaptcha. It acts as a filter for bots, but also helps OCR software digitize old texts.


Some fun reading (PDF).

Bastard. That's what I was going to say.

It's the best captcha available because it actually fucking does something. :awe::awe::awe::awe:

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I posted a thread about Recaptcha.

A quick search on Wiki shows that you only have to get 1 word right. HOWEVER, there are actually a lot of lenient scoring criteria they use...

For example, for a word like collar, it's pretty obvious it's Ls, and I put Is instead. In fact I misspelled both words using Ls and recaptcha took my responses. I tried many times, and if you're really close, it will let you go. I've only failed recaptcha ONCE in my life and it was while I was experimenting with it. I don't remember too well but it doesn't seem like there's a predetermined CORRECT word and a wrong word. Both are words for you to solve. But i believe that may be because the leniency they give me allows me to fail both anyway...

The other CAPTCHAs are complete fail. Some just piss me off and I refresh like 10 times. It's retarded. It's not even like I have a miscalibrated monitor either to have poor gamma/contrast. ReCaptcha should be the STANDARD.

CORRECTION: There is a preset word you ahve to get right. I typed qweuiryakdfjhgadsf + correct word and about half the time it passes me meaning that half the time it's the 2nd word that you have to get correct. You just have to get CLOSE..... You can swap ds for bs and Ls for Is and throw in 0s instead of Os.... yeah you get it.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

I have seen much worse.

Gah... That looks like a color-blindness test.

 

[40Hands]

TWBM4V. Easy.

I believe that's an N not an M.