It has happened way too often, every time I decide to surf
the internet I have to question that keeps haunting me. Every time I want to
comment, Every time I want to subscribe for a newsletter, every time I want to
do something interesting it happens. They always ask politely but when the
number of times one has to answer increases so does the frustration and anger
multiplies. The question is always the same, “Please prove you are not a
Robot”.
The question is always accompanied by a set of illegible
letters that no one with a sane pair of eyes can read and if he does try its
certain to drive him insane in seconds. The worst part is when the set of
letters never matches anything you type because some idiot who did the data
entry was way too drunk to realize the difference between ‘a’ and o or ‘r’ and
‘n’. You have to keep typing till you lose sanity and give up or by some divine
luck you get it right. I there is one thing in the internet more irritating
than those crazy videos that go viral just because some idiot just realized he
was an idiot and was lucky enough to be caught on came and helped himself to a
few million hits overnight then this must that.
They call it captcha I call it capture
They do have a very lovely name for this insane madness;
they call it ‘Captcha’. It sounds like ‘capture’ and I have never been able to
understand what they were actually trying to capture, some bad evil robot
developed by the sky net or our sane minds.
There are way too many captchas out there for any sane person to happily search the web without losing their minds.May be they do have no other way to distinguish genuine
users and spammers but what I don’t understand is why is it that I have to
enter the same thing again and again in the same website can’t they just be
happy with one verification. I will tell you this I am sick and tired of being
called a robot and being asked to prove otherwise. It never fails to make me
cry out “Believe me! I am human”.