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Yes, I’m Human. No, I Can’t Decode YouTube Captchas.

posted by | September 15, 2008 | 7 comments

Today’s minor pet peeve: illegible captchas.

Worse, captcha screens lacking a “generate another” link.

What is between the “h” and the “w” here? I have no clue.

 

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Argh.

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    7 Responses to “Yes, I’m Human. No, I Can’t Decode YouTube Captchas.”
    1. Mats Svensson says:
      May 7, 2009 at 12:28 pm

      Try the ones on youtube.

      Im pretty sure there is 0% chance anyone has ever passed one of theirs, and that they are just hardcoded to always give errors.

      Evil bastards…

    2. Jesse says:
      December 7, 2009 at 3:55 am

      Yea and why do they ask for you to do these captchas so frequently. JEEEZZZ I only posted 2 comments and I had to do this, later on I post a few more comments and again…

    3. diego says:
      June 26, 2010 at 11:37 pm

      Well Google knows everything. There must be a way to to prove you are an actual human being and get rid of the captchas. I really feel discriminated. One day only bots will be able to bypass the captchas.

    4. pascal says:
      September 19, 2010 at 5:14 pm

      diego – that’s pretty ironic considering captchas were originally meant to weed out the bots. But you are right. some programs are able to do it, such as skipscreen.

    5. Roch says:
      September 25, 2010 at 12:48 pm

      I am having this same problem but with the Technorati captchas… There isn’t even a “listen” button for blinds.

    6. Kawless says:
      October 20, 2010 at 5:05 am

      I totally agree, I can only make out about 1 in 5 of youtube’s captchas.
      Even worse when a site’s captchas don’t even work, and the only way to contact them is through their forum.. which you can’t create an account in because their captcha is broke.

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