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I felt like I was alone with this problem. I have been unable to solve some reCAPTCHA generated puzzles for about 6 months now. There was one particular site, I badly wanted to complete the registration form, but after about the 7th or 8th attempt at solving the captcha, I just decided it wasn't worth it. Now I don't even bother? reCAPTCHA? Bye.


Yep.

And for the love of all that's holy I wish they'd stop using characters that are impossible to distinguish in the mangled font. Is that 0? O? 1? I? l?.

Also, if they're going to make it case-sensitive, they shouldn't use ANY characters that look almost the same in upper and lower-case (especially when there's no baseline). Is that p? P? w? W?


Not alone by a long shot. I swear google has a line of code somewhere which says:

If ACow_Adonis then recaptcha(warpandobliterate("mnmnvwvvo0Ol1I|"))


Except, its not really bye reCAPTCHA, but bye to the site that used it.




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