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esquire said:
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i quit...

i dont see anything!
 
Smart ad. Kudos to whoever came up with that idea.

Evlar said:
Isn't the problem this appears to be very poor at defeating a spammer? And if it can't defeat spammers why the hell do users need to type anything, other than as a new and exciting way for whoever owns the domain to force users to drop another nickel in the can?

Because if there are a small finite number of phrases associated with a small finite number of advertisers it would be trivial for spammers to attempt all solutions.
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Captchas are already poor at stopping spammers.

There's loads of people in India and other countries round the world that solve captchas at a cost of about $1 per 1,000. If you buy in bulk, it's cheaper still.

Captchas are pretty much a non-factor as long as you're willing to spend a small amount of money.
 
I don't know, the ones that make you solve math equations or codes seem better suited for an automated bot... but I get the joke.
 
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.

Firebrand said:
Spambots and colorblind people not welcome on the Steam forums.

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Holy fuck. I'm not even colorblind, and I have a hard time seeing those. It's not so much that I can't differentiate the colors as it is the fact that my mind just can't process it.
 
Patrick Bateman said:
This is why I don't use rapidshare and tinypic. There are better alternatives..
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Rapidshare doesn't use Captcha at all anymore, and Tinypic uses Re-captcha, which I personally like.

Because of Re-Captcha helping digitize books, even if I don't know what a word is, I try to fill it out anyway, just because. I'm probably weird.
 
RJNavarrete said:
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OK, wtf am I supposed to do here?

:lol :lol :lol
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Yeah, the ReCaptcha's are slowly using human interpretation to digitize old magazines and newspapers. But because it is all automated, it often grabs indecipherable lines with non-standard characters that can't be submitted. That's one of the reasons why you can infinitely cycle through to new selections.

There are some articles out there about how the system works, and why it uses two words. Getting one word right in agreement with other "humans" gives your interpretation of the other word more weight, and so on.
 
RJNavarrete said:
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OK, wtf am I supposed to do here?

:lol :lol :lol
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driganly ★★★(★)

Duh. ;)

No idea if that shows up on everyone's browser or not, otherwise just use asterisks. :P
 
Recaptchas are nice because you can usually get past them without guessing the right word and they are for good cause.

Also, tinypic doesn't even ask it if you upload the files from your tinypic home, not the regular homepage!
 
Yaweee said:
Yeah, the ReCaptcha's are slowly using human interpretation to digitize old magazines and newspapers. But because it is all automated, it often grabs indecipherable lines with non-standard characters that can't be submitted. That's one of the reasons why you can infinitely cycle through to new selections.

There are some articles out there about how the system works, and why it uses two words. Getting one word right in agreement with other "humans" gives your interpretation of the other word more weight, and so on.
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Yeah, I am using a standard English qwerty keyboard, and they once asked me in Cyrillic letters. I was confused. The next one had an umlaut. I was wondering where they got it.
 
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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In projects like these (Galaxy Zoo is the only one I know little about and I run on the assumption re-captcha has many similarities) they tend to ask the same thing to many people so it runs on the assumption that most people are able to get the word correct (in the case of Galaxy Zoo the more ambiguous galaxies tend not to be given until you've proven competent at answering more basic ones). There is probably an analysis tool built into re-captcha allowing them to see which words have lots of different guesses and which ones are perfect every time. Even then they can test the results by seeing if the sentences produced make any sense or not.

That said I seem to remember reading somewhere a group of people were going to try and enter penis as the second word so it would randomly appear in old pieces of literature but given the same word checked with multiple sources it seems unlikely to work :lol

Edit: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/static/reCAPTCHA_Science.pdf
In case of discrepancies among human
answers, reCAPTCHA sends the word to more
humans as an “unknown word” and picks the
answer with the highest number of “votes,”
where each human answer counts as one vote
and each OCR guess counts as one half of a
vote
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I have issues with Recaptcha. It has a certain tolerance for a missed letter in both words, one letter per word.

But if both "words" are under 5 characters, that's a pretty big error margin you're allowing! Also, there are services out there that can OCR recaptcha (or farm it out to humans). Recaptcha is a nice deterence, but it isn't the end-all be-all of preventing automated/spam logins/form submissions.
 
Why not have three buttons with numbers on them and get them to 'click the button with the largest number'?

Or would that be a shit idea?
 
hateradio said:
It would work, had the text been in Courier New or some other mono-space font.

*fixed :]
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Oh, I see.
Web design fail then.
 
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