Sick of Captcha?

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I just came across a site that has a great replacement for "Captcha." Human verification made more fun, add it to your website.

http://areyouahuman.com/

No I'm in no way affiliated with this site, I just thought it was pretty cool.

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Actually I just saw something like this implemented yesterday, when buying ticket from the movies. I had to grab de Popcorn and put it on a basket. Much better than Captcha. I was trying to score some big act tickets in ticketmaster, and lost them to someone else because I got the damn Captcha wrong!!!!

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The thing about Captcha is that only one word is actually a verification. The other word is them using you to decipher a photocopied word so they can offer book digitizing. I always figure out which word is the verification one, and then type in a horrible swear word for the othe. Yes I'm that childish. But that's what Captcha gets for trying to make me work for them for free

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The thing about Captcha is that only one word is actually a verification. The other word is them using you to decipher a photocopied word so they can offer book digitizing. I always figure out which word is the verification one, and then type in a horrible swear word for the othe. Yes I'm that childish. But that's what Captcha gets for trying to make me work for them for free

It's not childish at all; It's just stupid.

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Osiris

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I thought there must have been a reason for the second actual word...thats pretty damn sneaky.

I like the idea of thing and I havent gone through the site but would be great if they had a more professional one. Maybe you just drag your mouse through a quick minimalist maze or something.

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Safelinking.net has been testing out something similair.

The thing about Captcha is that only one word is actually a verification. The other word is them using you to decipher a photocopied word so they can offer book digitizing. I always figure out which word is the verification one, and then type in a horrible swear word for the othe. Yes I'm that childish. But that's what Captcha gets for trying to make me work for them for free

How do you go about figuring out which word it is?

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I thought there must have been a reason for the second actual word...thats pretty damn sneaky.

They're not sneaky; they advertise it very proudly. And so they should. They took something that people were already doing, and made efficient use of the time. They don't do it so they can 'offer book digitizing', they do it so they can digitize books. All the Google Books searches you see, among many other uses, are done through methods like this.

What they want to do next is offer website translation services in exchange for learning another language for free. They will offer you free language classes, and then have you translate a block of text as part of your learning, and that translation will be used to offer websites in all languages.

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