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WHY IS THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE? reCAPTCHA has been around for ages. This isn't something new. Everyone knows about it. It's also widely implemented. I would li
by evdawg 18y ago
WHY IS THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE?
reCAPTCHA has been around for ages. This isn't something new. Everyone knows about it. It's also widely implemented.
I would like to add however, I hate reCAPTCHA. If you are a web developer who has added reCaptcha to your site, remove it. If you are thinking about adding it in, don't do it! reCAPTCHA takes the annoying in a CAPTCHA and multiplies it by two. No longer are the days where you have to solve one illegible CAPTCHA, now you have to do two. Plus, one of them is so bad that OCR software couldn't recognize it.
It's not your or your users job to digitize books. You aren't doing the world some great justice or charity by implementing reCAPTCHA on your site. If you want to digitize books, go help develop better OCR software. If you want to stop spam, there are better, less invasive methods.
- andreyf 18y agoPlus, one of them is so bad that OCR software couldn't recognize it. ... that's the point?
- evdawg 18y agothey're not colourful or textured or on a background or anything. If OCR software can't recognize black type (of a familiar typeface) on white, it must be pretty messed up. I'm just saying it that making the user do this twice is just plain unusable and annoying.
- sh1mmer 18y agoAnecdotally I've found ReCAPTCHA's CAPTCHA easier to fill in than other CAPTCHA that do strange distortions to obfuscate perfectly rendered text. It seems the human brain is much more adept at decoding the black and white noise resolved in a crappy scan than the artificial manipulations applied by a computer algorithm. It also seems the opposite is true for computers.
- tlrobinson 18y agoIt's on the front page because people thought it was more interesting than everything not on the front page. Plus, one of them is so bad that OCR software couldn't recognize it. Wait, what?! I think you don't quite understand the premise of CAPTCHAs.
- unalone 18y agoI was wondering whether or not to flag this, but decided against it on the off chance that people hadn't heard of it. I find ReCAPTCHAs very easy to fill out, myself. I've never had one wrong yet. If it's doing good at stopping bots, then it's absolutely a prime solution.
- ScottWhigham 18y agoIt's the weekend. Anyone with reasonable news is waiting until tomorrow to release it.