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The funny thing is that the dev is apparently competent enough to make it look like a captcha, yet not enough to know what the purpose of a captcha is. Actuall
by laurent123456 14y ago
The funny thing is that the dev is apparently competent enough to make it look like a captcha, yet not enough to know what the purpose of a captcha is.
Actually, even if it was real captcha, a computer could still easily guess the answer because the random parts are outside the answer text.
- krapp 14y agoYeah the regular grid and text would probably make ocr even easier if it were necessary. It wouldn't surprise me if they just used uppercase letters, too. Maybe they assumed that bots would interpret the page the way a human being would, when they're not looking at the source code? Though my money's on someone just not caring.
- aoloe 14y agoYou know, it could have been gone this way: Manager: Make me a captcha. Dev: We don't really need one, all we need is a simple way to avoid dumb automatic submits. M: Use a simple one, then. ... a few minutes later... D: Here it is, the user just has to copy over those four letters. M: Hey this is not a captcha. It does not look like a captcha. ... a few minutes later... D: Here it is, now it looks like a captcha. On the other side, it could be very true that if you don't put some annoyances behind it, "normal" people don't recognize it as a captcha... And most of the time (on most custom low traffic sites...) you don't really need much more that a static "write the result of 2+2". I've been there, I've already done it :-)