Time to Kill Off Captchas

[bekdik]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ll-off-captchas&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_TECH_20120228

Whenever there’s a problem in the modern world, we try to solve it by building barriers. Music piracy? Copy protection. Hacked Web sites? More complicated passwords.

Frankly, whenever I get blocked by a really bad captcha, I simply move on. Often to an opposition page ...

Unfortunately, like many Internet related things, a good idea is being pushed to the useless stage.

 

[Wyzak]

I fully agree with the article. The Captcha's on IOL use to be so bad that I was convinced that there was something wrong with their site. It would always fail on the first attempt and then only work on the second.