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Rant: Bad Captchas

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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