Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Worst CAPTCHA Ever

svedic.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–70 of 169 posts

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

#62

Post by ericz »

You know, maybe it's because they just wanted to slow down legitimate users for some reason, and spam wasn't a big problem. Ok I'm just trying to be optimistic.

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

#64

Post by pavel_lishin »

superdude wrote: post #50

One of my buddies worked in the accounting department at our state government. He needed to get a bunch of documents from another agency (like hundreds every month) to process claims. Well this other agency requires everyone to go through their website and download each document one at a time. They said it was to prevent abuse. For some reason they couldn't just send a batch of them to us, even a fellow state agency.…

Isn't that one ambitious DA away from being a felony these days?

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

#65

Post by senthilnayagam »

fakeer wrote: post #44
_ikke_ wrote: post #2

Well, it is a good way to tell computers and humans apart. Computers can read it, while humans can't. They should reject corectly filled in captchas.

I still loathe reCAPTCHA more than any other captcha out there. I've given up hopes of logging in on many occasions simply because of it. Looks like it's designed for not to be deciphered either by humans or computers.

I totally agree, see this recaptcha which is upside down, how are we supposed to read it

http://postimg.org/image/7xgovvhij/

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

#66

Post by just2n »

krapp wrote: post #49
dornab wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. It probably increases conversion because it looks secure. Credit card forms are sometimes used that way too, they get a lot of extra information because if they don't, people feel that they're scammy.

But surely a working captcha would increase conversion as well and have the added benefit of being a captcha?

And you really have to wonder, because the last time I had to implement a CAPTCHA (around 5 years ago), it was about 5 minutes of work. Google query, found a library, downloaded the library, copied the example into a form, and I was done.

I can't imagine coming up with your own clever hacked-together bogus CAPTCHA would be simpler than that. So they actually did it the hard way?

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

#69

Post by nlh »

dmazin wrote: post #67

Speaking of, has anyone else noticed that captchas (especially recaptcha) have gotten a lot harder over the last year?

I have indeed. Anyone have more details? At one point I recall (re)CAPTCHAs being about helping OCR slightly less-readable words from book scans. But they were actual words. They seem to be gibberish words now.

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

#70

Post by SolarNet »

nlh wrote: post #69
dmazin wrote: post #67

Speaking of, has anyone else noticed that captchas (especially recaptcha) have gotten a lot harder over the last year?

I have indeed. Anyone have more details? At one point I recall (re)CAPTCHAs being about helping OCR slightly less-readable words from book scans. But they were actual words. They seem to be gibberish words now.

Maybe they ran out of non-gibberish readable things to OCR?
Post reply on HN