Thread: these captchas are killing me..

i always hit the next button till i get one i can type.. but for some reason this one kept throwing hebrew at me.. if it wasn't hebrew it was offering something that looked like thai.. i was almost to the point of giving up when it gave me a the option of typing "partig"

Ditto on hitting the next button. eventually I end up with the combo of cat-dog or something else I can actually decipher.

Click on the Audio option.. I had that happen once where it kept spewing Kanji or Arabic characters at me so I hit the audio option and was able to bypass it since those use primarily number or letter sequences.

Interesting thing about the "reCaptcha"s. It's another interesting thing Google is doing. The first word is the word to check to see if you are a robot or not. The second word is used to help transcribe scanned books. Computers scan them and use character recognition to convert the images to text, but words it has trouble with ends up in reCaptcha for people to read and type for them.

This also means you can type anything you want in place of the second word. You can type "balloons", and possibly, somewhere, some random article is going to read much more interestingly.

reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books

thats it. im no longer putting the correct work in from now on. LOL seriously