Why are most IMAGE CAPTCHAS so HARD TO READ?
 

From social bookmarking, to social communities, to submission sites, to forum etc etc...

Why they do it SO HARD TO READ??? Those images are almost impossible to read for a normal eye.

"To fight Spam" is not an excuse in this case.. Because the intention is make those captchas readable for HUMANS... And they fail miserably to do so.

I was thinking the same....they seem to get more complex as time goes on.

Dunno about protecting from bots etc but soon humans will fail the test lol.

I like the ones that are Captcha symbols... like a mouse with a dog on it's head. That shit would be impossible for a machine to read. :)

I usually make my own..

Captcha is funny, difficult for people to read but somehow it is easy for spammers to circumvent.

was just thinking the same thing, i was at this site and i couldnt make out the word

Just bypass them and use the gimp version. i.e. click audio.

I always thought it was because I was color blind, about 90% of them really fuck my world up.

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What's really sad is programmers should be able to comprehend that computers can READ a graphic. When you consider their only parameters are twenty six different letters, and ten different numbers. It will ALWAYS be possible to write a program to read the captcha, no matter how complex the lettering and numbering is. I mean, hello - common sense here.

It makes you wonder how people writing letter/numerical captchas are still employed. :2 cents:

Its to fool OCR programs

CAPTCHA is generally becoming harder to read as OCR becomes more advanced. At some point OCR is going to be able to read warped letters better than a human can... time for something new...

I have no idea.

Because you're a robot, duh.

http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

http://i36.tinypic.com/168fuqt.jpg

Congrats

fuck yeah its annoying.... sometimes i have to type captcha 5-6 times, it defeats the purpose..