Recaptchas - Internet Torture
Computers were supposed to make our life easier.
With the deluge of spammers these days, more and more websites are using Captchas.
Unforunately, because of fear that spammers have already conquered those, people are now using Recaptchas.
The problem was that spammers were using people to solve them. So even if there is a switch to Recaptcha, the spammers still succeed.
This is a recaptcha I personally encountered. These unreadable blobs are a common occurrence.
It sometimes infuriates me when I fail these a couple times in a row. In addition to making your internet experience even harder, you are being exploited by Carnegie Mellon University. They are using your labor to scan books that their computers can’t read.
Fortunately, you can just type in a single word, and leave the other one blank. However, you can’t tell if its the first or second word. But a 50/50 chance is good enough for me.
For fun, here is a list of 10 horrible captchas:
