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Pete Brown - 21 August 2008

I’m glad there’s an option to get a different challenge

Blogging FAIL

posted by Pete Brown on Thursday, August 21, 2008
filed under: Blogging FAIL

5 comments for “CAPTCHA Fail”

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Patricksays:
Friday, August 22, 2008 at 12:42:44 PM
I am *really* sick of Captcha's everywhere. And many of them, like the one above, are ridiculously hard to read. (AX@4% <-- my guess)

This was especially annoying when I tried to Digg something for the first time the other day. Absolutely dreadful experience! I had to jump through hoops, pick categories, make sure there was no duplicates -- and then at the end it told me the categories I picked were wrong! Well, if it knows what the right category is why make me choose?

I can't believe so many people use that site. Nasty, nasty user experience.

edit -- HA! Your CAPTCHA just told me I got it wrong!
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Pete Brownsays:
Friday, August 22, 2008 at 12:50:54 PM
I hate CAPTCHA too, but you should have seen the amount of comment spam I was getting. Literally hundreds a day.

My new site (under development) uses Akamai instead of CAPTCHA, so it is pretty frictionless. TBD how well it will work.

BTW, my guess on that one is "4 1/2 © 4 2/3" but you'd need to use the character map or alt codes to type in those fractions.

Pete
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mike wolfsays:
Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 1:11:39 PM
the first word is the captcha... the second word id part of recaptcha ... a solution for usingthe web community to read words from books machines can not

http://recaptcha.net/
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Pete Brownsays:
Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 2:12:12 PM
@Mike

I understand recaptcha; it's a pretty cool idea, but that doesn't make it any easier to type in the text :)

Pete
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Arielsays:
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 10:52:44 PM
Well, if web developers put in a bit of code to determine that a request sent from the actual page then there will be no need for captcha which is very intrusive. Check out my article here

http://www.web-backlinks.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/29/programming-alternative-to-captcha-on-an-asp-web-form-using-a-hidden-variable/

I've got a few contact us page that implements this methodology and I haven't received any messages from a "bot" yet....

Wordpress should implement the same methodology on they're comments form, so webmasters dont get useless messages day in and day out...