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Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
Just tried to buy tix from Ticketmaster. I was faced with this puzzle. WTF?
The 2nd & 4th characters I could only take 50/50 guesses on. the 7th character looks like the 4th, but may or may not be different. I have no idea what the right answer actually is. I got it wrong, and was then faced with an equally difficult one. I got that wrong. Finally I was able to solve the 3rd. WTF!! is this really the best way to tell humans from bots - by presenting a visual test which I can't even get right half the time? PS I have 20/20 vision and a crisp LCD monitor |
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Re: Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
2nd character is an 8
or a 6 or an s 4th character is easy, its a 2, or an upper case I, or a Z |
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Re: Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
D8P2N4Z?
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Re: Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
Second for D8P2N4Z.
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Re: Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
D8PZN4Z?
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Re: Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
I agree that Ticketmaster's CAPTCHAs are [censored] terrible. However, some of them are much worse than others. I usually just keep reloading until I find one that's easy to figure out. |
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Re: Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
I like the ones that use zeros and O's. Brilliant.
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Re: Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
The funny thing is, there is software that the ticket brokers use to automate buying that can bypass this thing roughly half the time.
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Re: Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
I never get those right on the first try, this one I did for some reason.
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Re: Rant - the \'human\' detector that Ticketmaster, et al, uses
Captcha's are sometimes used in the strangest of places. I just did an ePassporte deposit to stars last night and had to do a captcha to complete the process. Damn you deposit bots.
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