I agree that those captchas are obscenely bad. :) I think we really, really need a replacement solution for them that works as reliably vs. bots.
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Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
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#22This made me remember: I once saw a website with a moving captcha. Can't remember where I saw. Anyone knows?
Comcast does that on their password reset pages. E.g., go to https://login.comcast.net/myaccount/reset, type in "foo", and click "Next."
Edit: From checking the source, it looks like they're using NuCaptcha (http://www.nucaptcha.com/). Looks like O2, Groupon, and StumbleUpon are also NuCaptcha customers. You can see examples on this page: http://nucaptcha.com/features/security-features
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#23I was just thinking this yesterday when I had to recover a Flickr account I hadn't used in ages. I had to solve captchas from Yahoo and Microsoft. The Yahoo captcha used rotating, bouncing letters on a scrolling background of more letters - ridiculous. Microsoft's was just a typical smeared mess, but no easier to actually solve. I think I failed each at least 3 times. It's not just difficult captchas, but use of them…
The article's largest complaint is not being able to read one (1) of the two (2) words in the captcha challenge.
ReCaptcha only requires one (1) out of two (2) words to be correct in the challenge.
It presents one known-by-the-system-word, and one not-known word. If you get the known word correct (the easier of the two to read) then it passes the challenge.
ReCaptcha then pools the answers for the second not-known word and after pooling thousands (or more) responses, then that word becomes "known" based on the average answers (and then that word is "digitized" and used by google maps, or ebooks, etc).
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And for those wondering, I find it easiest to read captcha's by just looking at the letters by shape.
Going down the list in the article:
onightsl secretary.
. phaRega
o ndaaar
proximity rsgrrem
and khseeke
. azedcg
elearsal 5
ination amesye
se ebtyR
Reomi now
ivestshm nwre
Again, it's important to note, you only have to get one of the two words correct to pass the challenge. So.. probably 99% of the above list would pass.
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#24We need a browser extension to help us solve captchas with OCR. This is indeed ridiculous.
There's webvisum and Captcha Monster. Captcha Monster is like $5 per 1000 captchas or something. Not sure about webvisum.
If someone could use [something like this](https://github.com/mekarpeles/captcha-decoder) to make an extension it would be great.
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#25I was just thinking this yesterday when I had to recover a Flickr account I hadn't used in ages. I had to solve captchas from Yahoo and Microsoft. The Yahoo captcha used rotating, bouncing letters on a scrolling background of more letters - ridiculous. Microsoft's was just a typical smeared mess, but no easier to actually solve. I think I failed each at least 3 times. It's not just difficult captchas, but use of them…
The article's largest complaint is not being able to read one (1) of the two (2) words in the captcha challenge. ReCaptcha only requires one (1) out of two (2) words to be correct in the challenge. It presents one known-by-the-system-word, and one not-known word. If you get the known word correct (the easier of the two to read) then it passes the challenge. ReCaptcha then pools the answers for the second not-known wo…
Please re-read the article
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#26What is everyone thoughts on this type of CAPTCHA? http://areyouahuman.com/site-owners/playthru/
it's interesting but two things come to mind. Viewing it on this site makes it seem like it's great, but what about in context? If i came across that, I'm forced to think more than a capthca, just since it's so different and unexpected (maybe that goes away if it's very widespread). Also, it looks like an annoying banner ad game from orbitz or something of years back - that might make me avoid it, ignore or just not trust it.
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#27I was just thinking this yesterday when I had to recover a Flickr account I hadn't used in ages. I had to solve captchas from Yahoo and Microsoft. The Yahoo captcha used rotating, bouncing letters on a scrolling background of more letters - ridiculous. Microsoft's was just a typical smeared mess, but no easier to actually solve. I think I failed each at least 3 times. It's not just difficult captchas, but use of them…
The article's largest complaint is not being able to read one (1) of the two (2) words in the captcha challenge. ReCaptcha only requires one (1) out of two (2) words to be correct in the challenge. It presents one known-by-the-system-word, and one not-known word. If you get the known word correct (the easier of the two to read) then it passes the challenge. ReCaptcha then pools the answers for the second not-known wo…
The original article was specifically about reCAPTCHA, not homebrews, and how difficult they now are (something I've also noticed lately). Either give it a (re-)read, or if you're saying you were able to easily read the examples in the article please share the answers! :)
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#28Off topic slightly, but does people with dyslexia have a hard time with captchas?
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#29Here's the one I got on linkedin recently https://twitter.com/check_ca/status/480784849260019712
I got one in Hebrew once:
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article's largest complaint is not being able to read one (1) of the two (2) words in the captcha challenge. ReCaptcha only requires one (1) out of two (2) words to be correct in the challenge. It presents one known-by-the-system-word, and one not-known word. If you get the known word correct (the easier of the two to read) then it passes the challenge. ReCaptcha then pools the answers for the second not-known wo…
Please re-read the article
I have.
The article's largest complaint is not being able to read one (1) of the two (2) words in the captcha challenge.
I was pointing out, that this complaint is not valid since reCaptcha (where all of the article's screenshots are from) only requires one of the 2 words to be correct.