Do Captchas Ever Drive You Crazy?

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"A CAPTCHA (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"), a trademark of Carnegie Mellon University, is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human." from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

But do they sometimes drive you as crazy as they do me? I remember one time I spent about twenty minutes trying to get the captcha right. On the other hand, on some sites they are very simple.

Anyone else felt that the captcha requirement on some sites was too difficult?
  • Profile picture of the author DubDubDubDot
    A little known fact is that Google actually uses the captcha to help identify words in their book scanning program. In those cases, only one of the words has to be entered correctly. The scanned word is taken as your opinion of what it is and compared to other people's opinion of the same scan.
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  • Profile picture of the author worldalpha
    I think they are getting more difficult, because bots are able to "guess" simpler versions.
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  • Profile picture of the author subisa852
    I also hate captchas especially if the character is unreadable and if it's very long.
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  • Profile picture of the author lockdownd7
    They can be annoying sometimes, for sure. Safelinking had a pretty cool one where you would play a video to get the captcha.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Oh yeah they drive me nuts. I just give up and leave if I can't get it right in 3 guesses. There's no reason to have a captcha that's so bizarre it's a major hassle for people to sign up.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Oh yeah they drive me nuts. I just give up and leave if I can't get it right in 3 guesses. There's no reason to have a captcha that's so bizarre it's a major hassle for people to sign up.
      Exactly!

      Those difficult ones are counterproductive for sure!

      Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    I hate the ones that are almost illegible. What is the point if you can't read it?
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  • Profile picture of the author MobiDev
    Has anyone tried to listen to it? It's even worse than reading
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