Picture captchas !

MaineBlue

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi all

How's this for you now? Hopefully it's much better for you.

Varies. Seems to be worse the more you do. For example, the Bauer 'max 30 entries' seems to attract trickier ones to complete (or they just don't complete). For example, 'select all the images with a store front until none are left' can take a fair while and the makers of the Captcha don't appear to know what a store front is (and don't get me started on what they think a road sign is). That being said, it has been easier than previously when it was clearly totally broken, but the simple fact remains, a lot of their picture captchas just don't work because they don't know what a vehicle, a bridge, a road sign, a store front etc. is or isn't.

cagsd

Playing up really badly again the past couple of days - back to what it was like at its worst: "keep clicking till there are none left" types not only take ages to show up but then tell you it's wrong and send you back to the beginning. Getting a bit fed up with them now as they were working fine for a good few weeks!

hertzyabazas

I've got road rage!

Enigmatic_Me

cagsd wrote: »

Playing up really badly again the past couple of days - back to what it was like at its worst: "keep clicking till there are none left" types not only take ages to show up but then tell you it's wrong and send you back to the beginning. Getting a bit fed up with them now as they were working fine for a good few weeks!

Totally agree. I had a bad time with them on Thursday on the Bauer competitions. It is absolutely ridiculous the amount of times you need to keep clicking.

Funny how some sites still use the old style captchas like the two words. Really wish they would all use these.

Daphne01

I find they are a pain in the @rse when you use a non tracking browser, in an ordinary one they seem fine! :mad:

Blulu

For me they've been a lot better for ages now. They're still annoying sometimes, but nothing like it was when it was really bad.

I have a tip, but it's a bit hard to explain. Sometimes on a second or third screen it will ask you to click on squares that match the word "Car" "Sign" or something like that. It will also say something like "or click skip if there are no matches". I've found that if I click skip for this, whether there are matches or not, it usually ends there and lets me enter. Sorry if that's as clear as mud.

Blu X

chocolateone

I gave up yesterday and I am now entering via audio option

Marg2k8

Has anyone else had problems with it freezing lately? A few times, I have selected all the squares with trains, then all the squares with vehicles, then all the squares with road signs, then it all goes greyed out and I cannot click either skip, refresh or submit.

Enigmatic_Me

Marg2k8 wrote: »

Has anyone else had problems with it freezing lately? A few times, I have selected all the squares with trains, then all the squares with vehicles, then all the squares with road signs, then it all goes greyed out and I cannot click either skip, refresh or submit.

Yes me too and I was also going to post re this. Happened quite a few times this week. I found that by refreshing the page it got rid of it but you have to key all your details again. :mad:

Bit of a nightmare with all the Bauer comps this week trying to get these picture captchas to work. Each one was taking at least 3 times to get it through.

hdh74

Marg2k8 wrote: »

Has anyone else had problems with it freezing lately? A few times, I have selected all the squares with trains, then all the squares with vehicles, then all the squares with road signs, then it all goes greyed out and I cannot click either skip, refresh or submit.

yup - not loads but a few times