Yahoo captcha

by David Evans on August 12, 2005 in Dating Sites

Today is my day to empty out my dating site mailboxes of Russian Babes.

Yahoo employs captchas, where you guess, then type, the correct series of letters into a textbox for authentication purposes.

First, Yahoo makes me sign into Yahoo personals each time, even if I have “Remember Me” checked off. Then, it asks me for my password a second time.

Once I’m logged into my mailbox. I reply to people, and I am presented with a captcha, a third level of anti-spam defense. I find the captcha incredibly annoying and unnecessary, the new version takes 3 or 4 attempts to get right most of the time.

Why this extra hoop to jump through? I’m authenticated twice over, so what’s the big deal?

I can only imagine what’s next. “Listen to this audio clip, identify the band, and enter it’s name in the box, which may appear in any location on the page, and moves around continuously.”

I love the new IBM Thinkpads with the biometric fingerprint reader and can’t wait for them to be installed on all keyboards.

[tags: yahoo personals]