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Captchas are getting rediculous
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August 20, 2010
2:12 PM
Pwnana
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Can someone please direct me to the Mu key on my keyboard?

mu

 

No?  How about the Arrow key?

 

Am I missing something?  Are those just there to confuse bots, or are we actually supposed to type them?

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August 20, 2010
2:17 PM
karen
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The arrow I have no idea.  The Mu probably just wants you to type a u.

August 20, 2010
2:19 PM
Pwnana
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Can anyone show me the incomprehensible mess button?

 

Maybe I should have tried that…

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August 20, 2010
2:23 PM
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I agree with you. Many of them are becoming unreadable.

August 20, 2010
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You're lucky that has a refresh button built right in. Some captchas I've come across are just as unreadable, without the option to refresh it – except refreshing the whole dang page.

 

Whoa! Did my icon just get super-sized or what?

August 20, 2010
7:32 PM
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Here's a fun little thing about ReCaptcha.  You know that they help Google scan books, right?  But do you know how?  They actually only know what one of those words is--say, maracull, rather than the arrow.  So if you don't know how to type one of them in, just do an approximation--like -->. 

Some of those are just jumbled messes though.

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August 23, 2010
7:39 PM
Pwnana
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Huh. I always kinda wondered what the "read books" meant. Guess now I know.

I did notice how sometimes its not always accurate.

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