So we are setting up some new buisness processes at work using Google Video and I had the lovely task of creating new Google Accounts for various groups in my business. Actually, the form is quite simple and easy except for the captchas. I think google uses some of the most difficult captchas today (they range from simple to impossible). I guess that is something they need to do.
However, it seems to me that they could make it more difficult for bots without making it so hard for humans to understand.By surprise, I came across what seems to be a bug in their system today. A few years ago, Google added an Audio Captcha to improve its accessibility.I was totally stumped with this captcha:
I really could not tell if that was gnttyled or grityled or what....so I decided to click the wheelchair icon to hear the audio. This however, is what I heard:
It would be easier to decipher a drunk Bob Dylan arguing with Tom Petty, in Japanese, than to figure out this audio captcha.
Now Google does admit that they audio will be challenging:
To keep the audio captcha as challenging as the visual captcha when confronted by automated agents, we add some distortion to the spoken digits, and we're still experimenting with different distortion techniques to ease the burden on the genuine human user while locking out automated agents.
However, that is just ridiculous! Try it for yourself and you can send them feedback.
I actually wrote them a REAL letter in the mail about this! I didn't know it bugged someone else that bad. It isn't just hard -- it is even very CREEPY!! And the captcha I got was WAY worse than that! It was like one big blob mess I swear.
ReplyDeleteI know this is an old post, but this is hilarious.
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