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Google Refines Captcha

Bambino — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:37:24 GMT

Not sure if it's out there yet, but this will certainly be easier, particularly on a mobile phone:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/12/03/google-offers-easier-way-to-prove-youre-not-a-robot/

Re: Google Refines Captcha

jonsie — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:43:51 GMT

The capchas are almost impossible to read on a mobile, hell I can't even read them on a laptop, continually refreshing till its legible. A change was badly needed. Having said that, many sites now just use numbers.

Re: Google Refines Captcha

MI5 — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:44:06 GMT

I absolutely hate those things - I can never read one or other of the codes 😞

Re: Google Refines Captcha

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:57:44 GMT

Annoying but essential.

Re: Google Refines Captcha

jonsie — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:05:37 GMT

I honestly think a robot would have more chance of deciphering these things.

Re: Google Refines Captcha

Cleoriff — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:57:27 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
I honestly think a robot would have more chance of deciphering these things.

I must be the only one that likes them. I am used to Ryanair though...They use Captcha. I have it down to a fine art

Re: Google Refines Captcha

jonsie — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:07:53 GMT

The female brain is obviously so much more perceptive....

Re: Google Refines Captcha

Cleoriff — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:25:26 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
The female brain is obviously so much more perceptive....

You should know....we three of them on the go at the moment...

Re: Google Refines Captcha

jonsie — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:54:42 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
@jonsie wrote:
The female brain is obviously so much more perceptive....
You should know....we three of them on the go at the moment...

Ok....Thai whiskey and that comment doesn't compute ☺

Re: Google Refines Captcha

Cleoriff — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:45:25 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
@jonsie wrote:
The female brain is obviously so much more perceptive....
You should know....we three of them on the go at the moment...
Ok....Thai whiskey and that comment doesn't compute ☺

Will re-type

You should know.... with three of them on the go at the moment

Re: Google Refines Captcha

jonsie — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:48:04 GMT

I'm having the same problem ....three of them on the go at the moment

Re: Google Refines Captcha

Cleoriff — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:59:56 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
I'm having the same problem ....three of them on the go at the moment

It was you I meant...you berk...

Re: Google Refines Captcha

jonsie — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:21:53 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
@jonsie wrote:
I'm having the same problem ....three of them on the go at the moment
It was you I meant...you berk...

It isn't easy juggling and thinking...Some people think with their brain☺

Re: Google Refines Captcha

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:16:19 GMT

thank you @Bambino , I havn't heard of Captcha before, so now I know what the mixed up letters & numbers are called. I personally I have no problem with them on my laptop - as Cleoriff says it must be the female brain tee hee hee

Re: Google Refines Captcha

viridis — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:40:12 GMT

I read somewhere once, captchas were developed not only as a way of proving you are a human, but also as a way of verifying words being digitally stored from old transcripts.
Sometimes the digital reader would come across a word it did not know and would send it off for verification. Which is why on the original captchas it would show a "common" word and also one of the unverified ones.
The common word was proof you were human and the odd word was then verified once so many people entered the same response.

Re: Google Refines Captcha

viridis — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:41:55 GMT

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93605988

Yup.