ReCaptcha - ohhhhhwwww!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18367017

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61001000/jpg/_61001952_ticketmastercut.jpg

See, the thing with this now is that you key in the first word for checking, and you are also telling the system what the other word/letter combo says as the scanner couldn't make it out!

Isn't the internet population a wonderful power?

Thats quite fascinating! It always amazes me when people even come up with solutions like this.

Captchas can die, that said, gah I hate them.

SB

So in theory you could just type anything in as the second word? So one day in the future somebody could be looking at a transcrtiption from a late 19th century newspaper and read something like this:

"Today, the esteemable inventor and polymath Mister Horatio Ponsonby-Smythe publicly demonstrated his latest invention, a penis."

ReCaptcha - bringing the world's literature and journalism down to the level of the average YouTube commenter, one word at a time...

The problem with ReCaptcha is that if you're feeling lazy you just have to type in the first one.

I wish all data entry jobs were like that.

You could type in anything as the second word ya, but iirc one guy writing penis is not going to make it believe that's what the word actually is. it takes in loads of recaptchas and then sees which one comes up most often, or something like that. so unless you can convince everyone on the internet to type penis as the 2nd word on all recaptchas, 19th century text will remain penis-free.

Well, you just typed 'penis' three times, so I'm sure that someone on the internet can raise a penis army.

its the internet, if you can dream it, some weirdo'll do it !

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_VuuaBHIqfY9tfqetMw3p27Lzzz-kYltCB74EOIcPbyZBWkSD_dRiOgyHO0uV74B7EcdSurUugXM_So5taaaojJeyFrrCWyz__KOoXA5TZMsr-ltG9lZp-MvdgG_XhOuXz0O6Vtx3mtlbYRYATwLhqlP4QZR-0A
Dunno.

I just can't prove I'm human anymore, apparently. Street signs is NEVER correct, cars just keep coming (but some sites only wait for a minute) and I'm not alone.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/recaptcha

http://www.graphpaper.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/bladerunner_empathy_01.jpg

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moot wins, Time Inc. loses. How 4chan "hacked" recaptcha to manipulate results for the Time 100 poll in 2009.

Someone needs to calculate how many billions worth of hours humanity has wasted on this fucking recaptcha bullshit over the last 17 years. It's only getting worse.