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Back up on my captcha soap box
25 October 2012 | by 
So my latest Captcha rant is......this week I was going to post a comment on a blog and on the comment page it contained the Captcha along with the comment box. There was the blur, the wave and numbers as usual so I filled in the maze and then added my comment. I proceeded to hit the post button I was then informed my Captcha attempt did not match....surprise surprise!! I was instructed to hit the back button and try again. To my surprise my comment was gone and I had to start all over again!!! Is this the NEW Capthca....mess up and your punishment is to start all over again. I guess from now on I am going to have to add but another step to my comment process, highlight and copy the comment in case I am punished and have to start again and maybe again and again....you get the idea.
I am stepping off my soapbox now........thank you.
7 Responses to “Back up on my captcha soap box”
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You should check out what Are You a Human (http://www.areyouahuman.com) is doing. (full disclosure, I used to work for them) They’re using simple games rather than squiggly letters that infuriate you. There are others in the space too that are going the route of user interaction to prove your humanness, so it’s likely we’ll start seeing a large shift very soon.
You’re not alone. Next in line are passwords. So many characters Uppercase and required special characters. Baloney! I have to jump through those stupid hoopes for work, for entertainment I don’t.
Preach it, brother! I have to really want something on a site to even bother with a a captcha anymore…
Good evening KB3HG, It sure can get to be very frustrating for sure and that’s why there are more and more bloggers who disable the Captcha feature. I have done that and sure I do get some spam now and then but blogger seems to catch the stuff and send it to my spam folder and it never see’s my blog. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to post a comment.
Mike
Hello KD8KZT, back at you brother…..it’s time they used the wealth of technology to defeat the spammer without having to torture us to avoid them. Thanks for stopping by the blog and taking the time to comment. You will notice that on my blog I have disabled the Captcha password “thing” and its easy peasy to comment. I do get spam but very few and blogger catches most if not all of it and puts it in the spam folder and it never gets posted.
Mike
Hi. I just stumbled across this post searching about if captcha has got harder. I don’t have a call sign. Just wanted to say that you are not alone in your hatred! I find Captchas nearly impossible to read now, especially the new google recaptcha with blurry house numbers in them! My eye sight is not the best but it should be relatively simple to get past these things! I ended up having to download a captcha bypass browser extension called rumola to read the captchas for me and fill them in. It works a treat and I would recommend to all fellow captcha haters but, why can’t there just be an easier test?!
Good evening Mink, thanks for bringing that to my attention and there was another blogger that brought one to my attention but there was a fee involved with it. I will give this one you suggested a go and see how it works. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
Mike
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