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   eaglecreekposted 13 years ago

   Am I the only one sick of captchas? Geesh ! Every time I try to read them I start feeling like my Papaw (grandfather) “ehhhh, whats that letter?” I can never make heads or tails out of any of the phrases, I have to refresh the stupid thing a million times and I still get it wrong the first few times. I would like to see everyone go to the arithmetic captchas. Now those I can do, 2+2= 4 - BAM! I got this.

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      eaglecreekposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I actually started this post yesterday but got stuck on the captcha submission. lol jk

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   jacharlessposted 13 years ago

   I totally agree!
   The ASCII system (32 - 127 (dec)) has plenty of chars that they don't have to go to such lengths. Seriously! A mere 5 digit combo is not readable by robots in text format. But they just want it to look really cool and intimidating.

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   WriteAngledposted 13 years ago

   They literally reduce me to tears because I sometimes need twenty or more attempts before I succeed. I've sometimes tried the spoken alternative, but find that even more difficult.
   
   I think I could cope if they used real words, but nearly always one of the pair is just a nonsense jumble of letters.

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      Marcy Goodfleischposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      You are so right, WriteAngled - I'd even be okay with the scrambled nonsense words, but sometimes it's impossible to tell what letters they're using.  Ms look like Ns, and the letter i (lowercase) can drift into other letters and merge. 
      
      If we ever have to use these to get online emergency response, people will keel over before they get through.

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         eaglecreekposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         emergency response- LOL. people are keeling over and the captcha keeps saying "try again please"
         
         when I am a rich and famous writer I will hire a team of 15 yr old teenagers to decipher these codes for me

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   Marcy Goodfleischposted 13 years ago

   Eric Newland wrote a very clever hub about Captchas about five weeks ago.  I agree with you and Eric - they're increasingly annoying and difficult to decipher.

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   Gordon Hamiltonposted 13 years ago

   Yes - definitely hate them and they frustrate me to the point of fury at times. What I have discovered, however, is that if you half close your eyes when you are trying to read them, they are often a lot easier to distinguish.
   
   Alternatively, I need my eyes tested...

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   psycheskinnerposted 13 years ago

   I don;t mind one word captchas I can actually read.  But two word, slave labor 'recaptchas' afflict me with a blinding rage,

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   Robie Benveposted 13 years ago

   There must be a better way than make the captchas so difficult to interpret.
   My most hated are the overlapping + fading letters, and they get worse when you can't tell if it's a capital or lower case.
   Yeah, there must be a better way!

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