I don't know where to post this but I had to go through about 50 Captchas before I could get one right.
Can it be set for degree of difficulty?
I even had one with hebrew characters.
Crazy Captcha
by scotoma 9 Replies latest jw friends
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darth frosty
I hate captcha's
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Emma
I'm ignorant. I have no idea what this is. Is it bad for me to admit this?
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HintOfLime
A captcha is a test to prevent automated bots from posting on forums or joining various websites. They typically have a garbled word that a human can make out but computer algorithms have difficulty recognizing.
Whenever you see a box with "enter the letters above", and the letters are some crazy characters in random fonts and colors with lines through them, etc... it's a captcha.
Unfortunately, it's a sort of 'cat and mouse' game - spammers are anxious to break the captchas, and are getting better at it... so the puzzles have to get harder and harder over time...
- Lime
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Emma
I learned something new; thanks so much, Lime.
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james_woods
Did you know that there are actually services employing third-world people to break these for spamming purposes?
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ohiocowboy
There have been some that I have found impossible to figure out. Now, some websites even have time limits for getting them right. I have seen some set at 10-15 seconds before you have to completely start over again.
Here is a website of some funny Captchas.
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Flat_Accent
You can actually cheat with Captcha.
There are always two phrases, but only one needs to be typed correctly - the other one (usually the one with foreign characters/upside down letters etc) you dont even have to try and spell.
That at least works for me, and makes it easier.
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ShirleyW
There are always two phrases, but only one needs to be typed correctly
You sure about that one? There's usually one word I can see clearly but the other word I can't, then I get an incorrect and another Captcha.
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HintOfLime
There are always two phrases, but only one needs to be typed correctly
You sure about that one? There's usually one word I can see clearly but the other word I can't, then I get an incorrect and another Captcha.
This is only true of reCaptcha - one of many captcha systems. I believe reCaptcha is changing this, however - as spammers are now acheiving something like a 70% success rate when algorithmically attacking reCaptcha.
- Lime