Recaptcha
So I was on the Ticketmaster site this morning, buying tickets for the Echo and the Bunnymen 30th anniversary show where they play the entirety of Ocean Rain at Radio City with an Orchestra (OMG OMG) and I got a pretty funny Recaptcha, which I didn’t screen capture, oops.
ANYWAY, the Recaptcha words were “Brontë” and “tificate”. I gamely put on my designer hat and typed shift-b,r,o,n,t,option-u and e as any good former typesetter would do on a mac to get an umlaut, and then typed out the semi-word “tificate.” It rejected me. I wonder if Recaptcha knows how to handle umlauts? I wonder if millions of people keep tying that word and getting it wrong and Recaptcha can’t figure out what’s the DEAL?
Anyway, I think I’m pro Recaptcha. More and more I’m into it. We should probably implement it on our site. Except it still has a few usability problems and we don’t have THAT much of a spam problem here. Still, though, good idea.
