For the last few weeks when trying to post to Facebook I regularly have to fill in some
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. I don't know if this is because I am posting links to my blog or because I am using my phone to post on a regular basis but it is really starting to bug me.
In the past this wouldn't have been a problem because CAPTCHAs where easy to read if you were human (and even for computers, old CAPTCHAs were pretty pathetic) but now they are impossible to complete. The other day after failing 5 and rejecting 6 others because I had absolutely no clue what most of the characters were I resulted to using the audio CAPTCHA which still took me two attempts. Honestly, I was there for 5 minutes just trying to post an update to my Facebook. How is this progress? If we have to make CAPTCHAs this difficult just to foil the computers we might as well give up and let SKYNET win because we don't stand a chance.
Below are some examples of the ludicrous CAPTCHAs that are currently prevalent on the internet.
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| I call this 'What's up with my monitor?' |
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This one is 'My Head Hurts'
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| And finally 'I don't think I'll bother' |
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| And just for giggles |
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