Captcha That! - Very annoying way of doing things.
I have to mention that today, it has become almost impossible to sign-up or retrieve a lost password from these sites that use this "captcha" technology. Why am I saying this. Because today I lost one of my 2 million passwords and needed to have it reset. I clicked that fancy link that says "Click here if you lost you password" then I was displayed a paged that had 2 boxes, one for my email address and one for this word for to verify. Needless to say after 20 or 30 attempts, I could not guess the letters of the word. I dont mean to brag, but I am fairly intelligent, at least smarter than 20% of the rest of the world, and certainly well above 25% in new york, but I could not for the life of me guess what these letters say.
Sadly to say, this was google's website. For all the really well designed apps available you would think they would have enough intelligence to say "we are getting carried away with these skewed letters that overlap each other". Perhaps I am just not that tech savvy. Anyway, I am curious to know if anyone else has any problems with these things or is it just me?
Posted at 06:09PM May 21, 2008 by David J in General | Comments[0]