Ok if I have to input one more visual verification code I'm going to scream Is it just my imagination or is it getting out of hand...they're meant to keep out bots; but they often make me have to try and login repeatedly - and my eyesight is great. I feel sorry for anyone visually impaired at all trying to decipher some of the ridiculously cryptic crap you see around these days. Seriously we need an alternative. There has to be a better way to handle scripts that doesn't inconvenience normal users so much.
I saw a drop down menu used for verification. Might say whic are similar night day plenty abundance rich poor happy sad Think there are five or six choices. As you say many of the visual ones are hard to read but I found this one as annoying. Of course each time you hit site you are given a different list.
Totally agree. I tried phplink directory script that had the visual verification code (Capcha Code) and what got me was that is was so easy to change the way the image is viewed with just a few teaks of the capcha file. I'm not a php expert and I got the image from looking like someone had puked in a box to a box with 4/5 easily identifiable numbers/letters in a mater of minutes.
Hey guys. I hadn't thought about it before, but when thinking about alternative verification techniques, I ended up realising that MySpace has a very good idea: not using such strong verification heavily but every once in a while, sneak in the captcha to stop bots in their tracks. Ideally you'd not allow any more attempts to repeat the action before captcha verified it. Also, any companies allowing, like, "premium" customers to avoid the captcha?
visual verification code sucks, I hate that, I have to type it a few times to get it right. Its so annoying, espically when you have to go to that website few times a day.
Vbulletin takes the piss, when i register at a new forum it takes me a few goes to get the code right as the letters are blurred and bent sometimes i cant figure what the letters are.
You would think there would be a way to create a captcha which is very easy for people to read and get right when they enter the code, buth which machines find extremely hard to decipher. One thought I have is that if the background were composed entirely of letters and numbers, but so many that it bleeds together into a single blob of color upon which the visible letters and numbers are printed. Would this kill a captcha reader bot?