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danmo783

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these captchas are insane
« on: November 16, 2016, 10:31:38 am »
Pick all the store fronts... I'm seeing blurry little foreign places. The stores and houses look the same half the time... And the street signs... Sometimes they go off into the side of another square, but they don't want you to click the square, and other times they do! They make you revalidate if you don't click on the metal posts holding it up, but sometimes I'm not supposed to click those.

I don't see the need for such complication on a captcha....

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2016, 10:38:32 am »
Agreed..it can sometimes get a little extreme

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2016, 11:06:03 am »
Yes, those sign ones have giving me headaches several times (mostly whether to click on the sign post as well as the sign). I'd rather do the captcha where you retype the numbers / word that is in a picture.

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2016, 10:50:49 am »
Yes they are on every survey every site. To make sure your not a robot ok  .I get many wrong its hard and stupid.

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2016, 04:26:28 pm »
I get them wrong most of the time, wish they would use something else.

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2016, 05:32:44 pm »
Yes, they can be hard to determine sometimes.

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2016, 05:45:14 pm »
Sometimes they can be confusing to figure out
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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2016, 05:54:51 pm »
Frustrating sometimes.

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2016, 12:28:15 pm »
i agree they get a little frustrating but i guess that is to make sure we are who we are !! i just like them cause you get either 3 or 5 cents with most of them which it is awesome to me --

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2016, 03:05:01 pm »
Pick all the store fronts... I'm seeing blurry little foreign places. The stores and houses look the same half the time... And the street signs... Sometimes they go off into the side of another square, but they don't want you to click the square, and other times they do! They make you revalidate if you don't click on the metal posts holding it up, but sometimes I'm not supposed to click those.

I don't see the need for such complication on a captcha....

It is to make sure you are a real person.

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2016, 10:46:37 pm »
  FusionCash: What happened? Why we have all those captchas?

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2016, 01:02:51 am »
These captchas appear in almost every survey. They are weird but want to make sure we're humans taking a survey.

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2016, 02:32:30 am »
I agree, I am so sick of them and then when you put the wrong password in my mistake, it just becomes one big nightmare. >:( >:( >:( :BangHead:

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2016, 07:16:17 am »
I totally hear you! I did a captcha the other day which required a click on the squares with street signs, but the perimeter of the street sign went into a new square and I wasn't sure wether I should be clicking on it or not. I did click on it, and then I was asked to click on all squares with shop front windows (so I assumed I needn't have clicked on the street sign perimeter in a separate square). Some of the shop windows didn't look like actual "store" windows, more like factory windows, so I didn't click. I guess that's the point though. How you interpret a picture is something only a person can do, not a computer.

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Re: these captchas are insane
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2016, 07:50:18 am »
I don't see the need for such complication on a captcha....

It's to make sure you are a human taking the survey and not a computer program. It's a deterrent to prevent anyone from using technology to skew the survey results.

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