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I fucking despise ReCAPTCHA. The conceited 'digitizing books' canard is so deviously yuppie-guilt-tripping. I've never found any publishings as to the results -
by blasdel 18y ago
I fucking despise ReCAPTCHA. The conceited 'digitizing books' canard is so deviously yuppie-guilt-tripping. I've never found any publishings as to the results -- have they actually done anything with the returned text?
CAPTCHAs themselves are rarely the best option -- they're only useful for unauthenticated submissions to extremely prominent sites (Google Accounts, Craigslist) and to extremely popular/poorly-written software (Movable Type, Wordpress).
If I'm already authenticated, or if I'm authenticating from a high-value OpenID provider (Google, etc.) I should not be solving any goddamn CAPTCHAs. If I'm anonymous (or effectively so with an unknown OpenID provider) it's ok to CAPTCHA me, but before you implement them think first about whether anyone's actually going to ATTACK YOU WITH A BOTNET. Unless you're a high-value target for griefing, the only way that's going to happen is if your site is an identical clone in a decrepit monoculture.
- blasdel 18y agoCome to think of it I almost never see any that wouldn't be straightforwardly OCRable pre-mutilation... It'd be hilarious if the whole OCR thing was a gimmick and nothing more!
- palish 18y agoYour two comments don't add a lot of value to the discussion. (If you'd like, I can go into details as to why they don't.) If you care about that kind of thing, then please try to communicate more calmly and clearly in the future.