I have had to register in this website and holy crap, I hardly could finish the process! I’m amazed there’s so many people registered even with captchas like this one. Is it an V or a X? or an N?
But I presume they might be having lots of spammers overcoming their captchas so that’s why they need to push it further and make it more and more complicated, even if that means that us the mere mortals can’t use the site. Not that I care (except when I need to register, obviously) but I have been working on something which I think it’s what they’ll need in the future. Without further ado, here it is: the next captcha generation for myspace forms!
Featuring absolutely unreadable text, horrible colours, distorted and unexpected music which clashes violently with whatever you’re listening to (I’ve added several songs playing at the same time so you can feel the pain even if you’re not listening to anything right now).
The colour scheme is carefully designed to fit perfectly with every single page in myspace and therefore it requires Flash 9, so it can push the adoption of Flash 9 amongst the internet community thanks to thousands of teenagers willing to show their intimate side to the world, while also making the linux 64-bit system and other exotic systems guys get angry because they don’t have a player for watching this monumental piece of crap.
Isn’t it nice?
LOL, a really funny joke about a sad true: captcha systems are becoming more uncomfortable every day :(
Exactly, that was the point… in trying to make it harder for spammers, “real” users can’t use the web.
I had a funny time doing this as well and it is hilarious to see the face of people when they open this page without expecting a load of distorted music suddenly :-D (did the test with mr.doob, hehe)
isn’t it glorious? It’s a damn shame that some people I want to keep in touch with are basically only accessible via Myspace. I hate that fucking site.
Oh this is going to get into a I-hate-myspace page! Ok, let me get started: I hate it not only because of the music & colours but also because it slows down my computer until it feels like an octogenarian in a marathon.
I should have made the flash way more resource-intensive }:-)