Im just wondering why captchas need to be distorted. Ive signed up to many vBulletin forums and the captchas are too annoying that you could not distinguish a M form an N or H. Just wondering
It makes it more difficult for computers to figure out. If it was just clean text, programs can figure them out (OCR, etc.)
correct - that's the main reason... words that are distorted and are interlaced with lines are much more (if not impossible) to be interpreted by icr or ocr engines...
The thing I hate most about the internet is those stupid captchas. Nothing annoys me more, some take about 4 attempts for me to fill in and I have good eyesight and know about using the internet. Talk about providing barriers for people.
Same here. Makes an intelligent, web-savvy person feel rather stupid and inadequate. I program web solutions all day and can't even post my own effin' blog without 3 or 4 attempts at cracking some useless code.