AIBU to think that reCAPTCHA web security

[helloclitty]

words are getting impossible to read. I must have tried at least twenty words before I could find one I could read.

I am not sure what it does but AIBU to think that they are impossible to decipher half the time.

I don't know how people with a visual impairment cope. I've tried listening to the words too but that often doesn't help either.

They are so annoying. You will invariably get most of them right and then there will be something that could be either y, g, 9, p or something.

They are to verify that you are a human and not an automated computer - for the benefit of the website you are visiting, rather than your own benefit, usually.

YANBU

YANBU. I don't get it at all. It would help if they were actual words .

Recaptcha is brilliant though! It helps translate old texts into digital books - every time you solve a recaptcha you're contributing! www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore

And why the crooked letters?

Hugefurry

I am not sure I actually understand that but thanks for the link.

YANBU. I really hate them. I have to keep clicking to get new ones until I can read it. And I have good eyesight.

I also cannot get into my email because they want an alternate email, security questions and my phone number. Im sorry but no. Il do without my email before I give them my bloody life story.

Technology is taking over.

Sorry HelloClitty, I'll stop waffling and post something more enlightening: walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.03-technology-human-resources-recaptcha-alex-hutchinson/

Hugefurry

Ok now I get it! Thanks for that vair interesting

Oh, it drives me up the pigging WALL! Most of the words are impossible to read, I agree.

Wow, Huge - I just read your links. That's amazing. I didn't know that. I feel a little less pissed off about doing it now

I agree, Op. they do seem to be getting harder but maybe the reading technology is getting better?

Off to read link which will probably answer my point

Ah, have read it.

I don't mind the real words, it is the strings that are harder as sometimes it is difficult to tell between similar characters if there is no context of a word.

They are very stupid.