It’s starting to get annoying and I’m talking about CAPTCHA. What is CAPTCHA? It’s the little annoying ‘text’ images you see all around the place when you register/sign up to something on the Internet. It usually looks like the images around.
I’m really sick of all that CAPTCHA thing as I think it’s really ruining the user experience and most users don’t really understand the use of it. So what is it for really? CAPTCHA is actually a technology to detect if the user is a human or a computer. Without that kind of technology, it would be easier for someone to develop a software that could automatically create accounts on Hotmail or Gmail for example. With that kind of image, it’s hard to write a program that can detect the text in it. So this way, you ensure the sign up comes from a human being. The problem is that it’s affecting everyone and most people don’t give a damn about automated sign ups. They just want to register to a service without the pain of having to guess what the text inside the image is.
Let’s face it, it’s not always easy to guess what’s in the CAPTCHA image. It’s not rare to try 2 or three times without success and it’s really frustrating. The problem is that CAPTCHA is becoming more and more complex to read because of people being able to develop software capable of reading complex CAPTCHAs. Soon enough, you’ll need a computer to decode the true meaning of CAPTCHA, no longer the human will be able to read and decode it. That kind of spoil the whole purpose of CAPTCHA…
Lets all agree, CAPTCHA is a pain. There’s a big need for something better and not annoying for the regular end user who doesn’t give a damn about automated sign ups. At least, Google understood and has a readable and uncrackable CAPTCHA text. It’s still a really annoying piece of technology but a company is making a step forward to a better CAPTCHA.
OOPS! Looks like two of the images are identical.
Yes, completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans apart can be annoying.
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Stinkoman87, could you give a link to that wiki? I'm interested in it.
lol! oh my god, thank you! I've been saying this for years now… To the point where I start wondering if I'm mildly dyslexic or something when I find myself having to go through different example until I get it right.