Unfriendliest CAPTCHA ever

By Robert Mohns – Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 / 10:01am View more articles

Remember my CAPTCHA rant? While trying to buy NIN/JA tickets, I encountered the worst captcha yet: guess me I don't know if it's bot-proof, but it took two coworkers to help figure it out. In what world is this a good idea?

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Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 / 11:49am ∞ Nick Grant said…

TNNgm8

I wonder if it works better with 3D glasses on.

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 / 3:57am ∞ professional photo retouch artist said…

I have found some capcthas that even if you input the correct letters and numbers, they make you re-enter about 3 times, just to make you suffer I suppose

Tuesday, Mar 31, 2009 / 11:06am ∞ Errol Sayre said…

That looks my cable tv reception... *sigh*

Tuesday, Mar 31, 2009 / 9:16pm ∞ max buxton said…

I thought the "In what world is this a good idea?" question was referring to the NIN/JA tour.

-max

Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 / 1:23pm ∞ Steve Daily said…

To Nick's point, I just added CAPTCHA to my site, but at least I am offering visitors CAPTCHA Glasses.

Thursday, May 14, 2009 / 7:42pm ∞ redisforever said…

Looks like my laptop screen after I dropped it and it broke

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