Odd Captcha

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I was sending an email from and for some reason it made me input a Capycha. I'm wondering what yahoo is trying to insult me or something. LOL

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Sending e-mails

Yahoo's is doing this, so is MSN Outlook does it now and so does Goggle does it too. It just a verification of who you are, there trying to stop SPAM. Richard

Richard

Thats new ?

tmf's picture

The last I send some, there was no captcha on yahoo or g-mail.

Peace and Love
tmf

Depends on where it is being sent from

If the site sends the email internally from itself, rather than redirecting to your system email, you get this. By using a site's email contact system it gives the person recieving the email another level of security by not making their email address public. It is similar to recieving an email alert for a private message. I belong to several sites that do that also

Disability discrimination...

Puddintane's picture

They're also potent sources of inaccessibility for many disabled individuals, since they depend upon either perfect hearing or perfect eyesight. If one falls short in both, the site or feature becomes impossible to use without the intervention of a human companion. I suspect there's a very costly lawsuit and judgement lurking somewhere beneath the glib rationale.

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Cheers,

Puddin'

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capcha programming

I wonder if it's coded to leave certain words out or if someone somewhere has been given the verification code "asshat" or "usuck"

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Yahoo Captcha

Yahoo used the same Captcha in front of their bridge game for a long time until just recently. The purpose was to keep bots out. It's very rare that the generated letters spell out anything close to a word; usually it's just gobbledegook.