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Fun tip: reCAPTCHA is actually two things, the "re" and the "CAPTCHA". In other words, one half is about testing that you're not a human, while the other half i
by drostie 14y ago
Fun tip: reCAPTCHA is actually two things, the "re" and the "CAPTCHA". In other words, one half is about testing that you're not a human, while the other half is a legitimately unknown word from a source of failed optical character recognition.
You actually don't have to get the latter one anything close to right; and I think you're given the option of at least one typo in the actual CAPTCHA test.
So when a CAPTCHA looks impossible, try doing the possible half and typing in "balls" for the other half. It actually works with pretty reasonable accuracy.
- anoncow 14y ago> try doing the possible half and typing in "balls" for the other half That doesn't help with the digitization of books. :)
- spoiler 14y agoBut it helps us! :P
- ivix 14y agoDepends on the book.
- jodrellblank 14y agoWho gives a crap about helping Google digitize books that they scanned without publisher or author permission and that we won't be able to to read afterwards because we have to respect copyright where they didn't? Capchas are a pox on the web, and reCaptcha a sleazy immoral one, too.
- htm 14y agoPlus you can guess (with absolute certainty since they changed the domain to read the google.com cookie) they use it as an unblockable tracker to build a database of sites you're registered on.
- redact207 14y agoThis explains what happened when I tried to read "28 balls later"
- wubbfindel 14y agoThanks to this we will now be plagued with ebooks using the word "balls" instead of correct words. Hilarity ensues.
- Daiz 14y agoThe more immature part of 4chan has for quite literally years tried to do that with the word "nigger"[1], with no real apparent success (not that I've checked myself, though). One of the easiest things done to counter malicious input is to simply validate any unknown words with multiple people before marking them as "recognized". [1] http://i.eprci.net/op-renigger http://i.eprci.net/op-renigger
- anonymfus 14y agoRandom words from books? What a herecy! Clearly they come from the Lord Inglip. http://churchofinglip.com/ http://churchofinglip.com/
- gcb0 14y agoat 4chan, it's almost a rule to write male-anatomy-part-that-starts-with-P for the easy to read word.
- kdtg 14y agoPenis. It's called a penis.
- Bromskloss 14y agoNo! Not _that_ part!
- johnny99 14y agoSo your the smart aleck whose been inserting the word 'balls' into all my ebooks. Damn you, drostie!