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Title: these captchas are insane
Post by: danmo783 on November 16, 2016, 10:31:38 am
Pick all the store fronts... I'm seeing blurry little foreign places. The stores and houses look the same half the time... And the street signs... Sometimes they go off into the side of another square, but they don't want you to click the square, and other times they do! They make you revalidate if you don't click on the metal posts holding it up, but sometimes I'm not supposed to click those.

I don't see the need for such complication on a captcha....
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Post by: ktheodos on November 16, 2016, 10:38:32 am
Agreed..it can sometimes get a little extreme
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Post by: lvstephanie on November 16, 2016, 11:06:03 am
Yes, those sign ones have giving me headaches several times (mostly whether to click on the sign post as well as the sign). I'd rather do the captcha where you retype the numbers / word that is in a picture.
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Post by: potluck6 on November 17, 2016, 10:50:49 am
Yes they are on every survey every site. To make sure your not a robot ok  .I get many wrong its hard and stupid.
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Post by: sdenimandlace1 on November 17, 2016, 04:26:28 pm
I get them wrong most of the time, wish they would use something else.
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Post by: blessedwith3boys on November 17, 2016, 05:32:44 pm
Yes, they can be hard to determine sometimes.
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Post by: LaTashaS28 on November 17, 2016, 05:45:14 pm
Sometimes they can be confusing to figure out
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Post by: heypeg on November 17, 2016, 05:54:51 pm
Frustrating sometimes.
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Post by: BATISTAGIRL663 on November 20, 2016, 12:28:15 pm
i agree they get a little frustrating but i guess that is to make sure we are who we are !! i just like them cause you get either 3 or 5 cents with most of them which it is awesome to me --
Title: Re: these captchas are insane
Post by: countrygirl12 on November 20, 2016, 03:05:01 pm
Pick all the store fronts... I'm seeing blurry little foreign places. The stores and houses look the same half the time... And the street signs... Sometimes they go off into the side of another square, but they don't want you to click the square, and other times they do! They make you revalidate if you don't click on the metal posts holding it up, but sometimes I'm not supposed to click those.

I don't see the need for such complication on a captcha....

It is to make sure you are a real person.
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Post by: ancmetro on November 20, 2016, 10:46:37 pm
  FusionCash: What happened? Why we have all those captchas?
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Post by: surveygrabber on November 21, 2016, 01:02:51 am
These captchas appear in almost every survey. They are weird but want to make sure we're humans taking a survey.
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Post by: mardukblood2009 on November 21, 2016, 02:32:30 am
I agree, I am so sick of them and then when you put the wrong password in my mistake, it just becomes one big nightmare. >:( >:( >:( :BangHead:
Title: Re: these captchas are insane
Post by: Penwoir on November 21, 2016, 07:16:17 am
I totally hear you! I did a captcha the other day which required a click on the squares with street signs, but the perimeter of the street sign went into a new square and I wasn't sure wether I should be clicking on it or not. I did click on it, and then I was asked to click on all squares with shop front windows (so I assumed I needn't have clicked on the street sign perimeter in a separate square). Some of the shop windows didn't look like actual "store" windows, more like factory windows, so I didn't click. I guess that's the point though. How you interpret a picture is something only a person can do, not a computer.
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Post by: h_padgett on November 21, 2016, 07:50:18 am
I don't see the need for such complication on a captcha....

It's to make sure you are a human taking the survey and not a computer program. It's a deterrent to prevent anyone from using technology to skew the survey results.
Title: Re: these captchas are insane
Post by: lvstephanie on November 22, 2016, 09:51:03 am
I don't see the need for such complication on a captcha....

It's to make sure you are a human taking the survey and not a computer program. It's a deterrent to prevent anyone from using technology to skew the survey results.

The question is not why do we have captcha, but rather why such complication in the captcha... As I mentioned, there are other captcha questions that are not so complicated and subjective, like asking the person to type in the letters / numbers found on a photograph. I've sometimes been fed up with the visual captchas that I'll do the audio one instead. Those tend to be easier to complete and are not so subjective as to what you are to enter in.
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Post by: linderlizzie on November 22, 2016, 10:07:41 am
To me, they don't seem all that difficult, but it's very annoying that there are so many people using bots instead of taking the time to help out the researchers. Sad commentary.

The innocents always have to pay for the baddies. Take something good and make it bad. That's why I always get searched when I fly. They pick out the safest people I'm thinkin'.


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Post by: cathy37 on November 22, 2016, 10:49:43 am
Sometimes they are hard to figure out especially the street signs.  You have to make sure you select every little thing about the sign.
Title: Re: these captchas are insane
Post by: h_padgett on December 01, 2016, 09:03:18 am
I don't see the need for such complication on a captcha....

It's to make sure you are a human taking the survey and not a computer program. It's a deterrent to prevent anyone from using technology to skew the survey results.

The question is not why do we have captcha, but rather why such complication in the captcha... As I mentioned, there are other captcha questions that are not so complicated and subjective, like asking the person to type in the letters / numbers found on a photograph. I've sometimes been fed up with the visual captchas that I'll do the audio one instead. Those tend to be easier to complete and are not so subjective as to what you are to enter in.

That also answers the complication factor - for example, if Google can teach robots to communicate to one another in an encrypted code no one can break (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.06918v1.pdf), not even the designated decipher bot, and this program were to then be used and abused by a company in some way to skew results (not to mention the more terrifying implications this has for others who could get a hold of it and abuse it), then CAPTCHA creators have to compensate and make sure these bots have as little chance as solving it as possible while still attempting to maintain an ease of access for humans.

Granted that's an extreme scenario, and also highly unlikely to happen (at least not in the very near future), but situations in which bots become programmable to be able to "think" and "reason" like a human are why security measures online become increasingly difficult.
Title: Re: these captchas are insane
Post by: beatsdrop on December 01, 2016, 10:24:22 am
Some of them are just plain hard to read. I'd rather pick images of store fronts than input hard to read "sayings."
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Post by: ljrjess69 on December 01, 2016, 10:25:32 am
man i hate those dang things!!!!!!!!! :bad: :bad:
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Post by: gaby_ro_2004 on December 01, 2016, 05:14:13 pm
They are confusing sometimes.
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Post by: dsosnowski06 on December 01, 2016, 10:36:50 pm
When i cannot see the signs or some other crazy thing I use the audio on it.  Give you numbers to type in and works really well.
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Post by: Liquidfire_43 on December 05, 2016, 11:42:40 am
I just keep refreshing the captcha until I find a clear one. If they keep getting unclear, I switch to audio.. Never had a problem using that option
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Post by: mrisha on December 05, 2016, 02:29:57 pm
Those captchas are suppose to be another leg of security for people to use because of all the scams going on.  They can be a pain.
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Post by: bremer51 on December 05, 2016, 03:12:11 pm
Sometimes they seem overly complicated, but I understand the need.
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Post by: natashaspy on December 05, 2016, 05:17:34 pm
I have a lot of trouble with the street signs ones. Sometimes they want just the sign part, others they want the sign and the post...it's hard to tell what to click.