what an awesome idea!
Captcha Advertising
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Re: Captcha Advertising
#2This is a great idea, advertising/monetization meeting spam prevention.
Re: Captcha Advertising
#3The problem is that for captcha to work properly, there has to be an enormous number of possible captcha words and phrases.
If people use advertising slogans for captcha text, then the advertising execs will only be able to come up with a very limited number of slogans (they are, after all, only human and from my experience they are not the type of humans that work too hard). And if there is a limited number of captcha texts, the hackers will easily program bots to recognise them.
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#4I don't think this is ever going to work. While solving captchas, people are in different mental mode than while looking at ads.
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#5The problem is that for captcha to work properly, there has to be an enormous number of possible captcha words and phrases. If people use advertising slogans for captcha text, then the advertising execs will only be able to come up with a very limited number of slogans (they are, after all, only human and from my experience they are not the type of humans that work too hard). And if there is a limited number of captc…
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#6@hristov I'm sure if you get creative you can come up with ways to have "an enormous number" of captcha's. If you take the Dish Network example you could say "what is quoted text" + this "number". That just one example that comes to mind. @paraschopra I think you have a good point my mind set is annoyed when I have to fill out a captcha.
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#7I don't think this is ever going to work. While solving captchas, people are in different mental mode than while looking at ads.
A different mode while looking at ads? What is "ad mode" then? Doing the dishes while ads are on TV?
Ads work on a subconscious level :)
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#8A German startup is doing this, too: http://www.captchaad.com/
IIRC Microsoft even tried to patent this. The article's claim that only one company is working "as the middleman between advertisers and webmasters in order to display CAPTCHA ads" seems slightly exaggerated ;)
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#9I don't think this is ever going to work. While solving captchas, people are in different mental mode than while looking at ads.
A different mode while looking at ads? What is "ad mode" then? Doing the dishes while ads are on TV? Ads work on a subconscious level :)
I don't think you an ad playing on TV makes any sense if you are playing sudoku at the same time.
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#10@hristov I'm sure if you get creative you can come up with ways to have "an enormous number" of captcha's. If you take the Dish Network example you could say "what is quoted text" + this "number". That just one example that comes to mind. @paraschopra I think you have a good point my mind set is annoyed when I have to fill out a captcha.
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