Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

#1

Post by JoshTheGeek » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
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Re: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

#2

Post by opendais » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

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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#3

Post by sp332 » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:41 PM UTC

The squished-up word is the control word, and the straight one is the unknown one. You only need to get the wavy word right and just guess at all the cut-off examples.

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#4

Post by vinc » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

We need a browser extension to help us solve captchas with OCR. This is indeed ridiculous.

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#5

Post by ChuckMcM » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

opendais wrote: post #2

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.

So at what point do we 'switch over' which is to say that the Captcha code realizes that if you solve it your a robot/script because humans can't ?

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#6

Post by joelgrus » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

I always worry that they're getting harder because I'm getting old, so it's comforting that an arms race against bots is the real cause! :)

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#7

Post by wmf » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

Since 2012 there have been some changes that make it easier under "normal" conditions: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-j...

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#8

Post by nsxwolf » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

The audio captchas are psychotic. They are scarier sounding than anything I've heard in a horror movie lately, and I have never been able to solve one.

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#9

Post by talles » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:57 PM UTC

This made me remember: I once saw a website with a moving captcha.

Can't remember where I saw. Anyone knows?

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#10

Post by Tarang » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 5:58 PM UTC

I have to type this awful thing every time I log into Envato and I can never get it right. It's so frustrating. Envato refuse to acknowledge its an issue.

I don't even get the point of it since you can get passed them by just hiring people off like at http://antigate.com/ for as little as 70c per 1000 captchas