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I went to my grandmother's house today to help her set up an email account. Yahoo was her default homepage, so I figured I'd just give her a Yahoo mail account to make things easier for her. After I show her how to write and send an email, I find out that Yahoo makes the user enter a captcha for every email they send. What the fuck? So now I have to explain captchas to my grandma who just started using the internet a week ago, and trying to explain to her that she's gonna have to decipher these and re-type them every time she wants to say hello to a friend in Florida. Goddamn spambots, ruining everyone else's fun.
 
shit, this got me :lol

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On a somewhat related note what do you guys use instead of tinypic? I'm getting tired of refreshing the captcha like 20 times before I come across one that's legible.
 
Messypandas said:
so if the re-captcha project is to digitize old novels and stuff how can the computer tell if you spell the second word wrong?
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It can't. It knows what one word is and if you get that word right, they let you pass and they store your interpretation of the other word. Eventually, they have enough data to reasonably determine what the second word is.
 
Afrodium said:
I went to my grandmother's house today to help her set up an email account. Yahoo was her default homepage, so I figured I'd just give her a Yahoo mail account to make things easier for her. After I show her how to write and send an email, I find out that Yahoo makes the user enter a captcha for every email they send. What the fuck? So now I have to explain captchas to my grandma who just started using the internet a week ago, and trying to explain to her that she's gonna have to decipher these and re-type them every time she wants to say hello to a friend in Florida. Goddamn spambots, ruining everyone else's fun.
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1 create gmail account
2 set google.com/ig as homepage
3 ....
4 profit?
 
RJNavarrete said:
1 create gmail account
2 set google.com/ig as homepage
3 ....
4 profit?
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I would have, but I had already set up her whole account, made her contact list, and explained to her where everything on Yahoo was, so it would be really confusing to her if I said to forget everything and then made her a new account on a completely different site.
 
Afrodium said:
I went to my grandmother's house today to help her set up an email account. Yahoo was her default homepage, so I figured I'd just give her a Yahoo mail account to make things easier for her. After I show her how to write and send an email, I find out that Yahoo makes the user enter a captcha for every email they send. What the fuck? So now I have to explain captchas to my grandma who just started using the internet a week ago, and trying to explain to her that she's gonna have to decipher these and re-type them every time she wants to say hello to a friend in Florida. Goddamn spambots, ruining everyone else's fun.
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I've never had to enter a captcha for any yahoo email I've ever sent. I guess it's possible they only require it of new accounts.
 
loosus said:
Google will now host your e-mail services for you (using your own domain and all), so we switched to them at work about a year ago.

Well, when a user logs in for the first time, they get this HORRENDOUS captcha. It's not as bad as that cats captcha in this thread, but it's very easy to screw up on. We've had so much trouble with it that we are actually thinking of either switching hosts or bringing e-mail services back to our own servers.
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That is pretty stupid since Google owns reCAPTCHA

RJNavarrete said:
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OK, wtf am I supposed to do here?

:lol :lol :lol
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Hah, I've gotten ones like that before but with reCAPTCHA you only need to get the control word right
 
Mecha_Infantry said:
Obviously not all catchphas are hard to read, it's the complexity and length of them, as show in the OP

Was that really difficult to understand?
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The OP was about using advertisements as a CAPTCHA. Nothing to do with complexity or length
 
Mecha_Infantry said:
Obviously not all catchphas are hard to read, it's the complexity and length of them, as show in the OP

Was that really difficult to understand?
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The problem with the OP's was more to do with the shameless marketing than the length, and I don't mind re-captcha because it's for a good cause, even yours only takes about 5 seconds or so which personally doesn't bother me.
 
the_log_ride said:
Not as bad as Seph's on the previous page, but seriously this stuff's annoying

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Greek letters are at least doable. Not like all the integral stuff. :lol

πολλοστω - rahrons
 
As to the ads in the OP, I've seen that before, but mostly in hotels that provide free Internet access.

I think it's a cool idea. Better than just the regular ones.
 
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