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Rant: Bad Captchas

Title: Rant: Bad Captchas
URL: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/05/11/rant-bad-captchas/
Printed: March 18, 2010
Source: The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com

Oh how I hate bad captchas. Here’s one from Earthlink’s webmail that tripped me up today:

bad captcha

Yeah, captchas help sites defeat ‘bots to some degree. But come on, let’s not utterly destroy usability.

This one is classic:
bad captcha

Sigh.

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  1. MILIND, March 26, 2008:

    I WANT JOBS OF CAPTACHAS

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