Am I the ONLY one with trouble proving they are human?

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I hate having to prove I am human to every place on the internet

those stupid test are heinous for me, it takes a minimum of 10 tries if I can even get them to work for some places, on many of them I simply can't go at all and I have just given up on certain prizes or some forums due to them making them so hard. I am also hearing impaired so I can't even use the add on if they include that version - the sound version never works either.

Far from it, plenty of people here have issues with these tests, called "CAPTCHAs". You're lucky you didn't join WP about 6 months ago when every post or preview required solving a CAPTCHA! Many people here can tell you how maddening it was.

Unfortunately, to remain effective, these tests have to get harder as artificial intelligence gets better. At some point it becomes more difficult for a human to solve than for AI. Some would say we're already at that point.

that is just it - computers are getting so hard to use anymore that my life is becoming not worth living sice society does not want me in public and o\no one wants to do anything IRL ever and all must be done by computer if I can't function on one, what is the point in continuing? I am being made into a non-entity

No you are definitely not alone on this one....I HATE THEM!

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Could be so very worse:

in this example the top one I can do, and is amusing, the bottom one I would want to slam my computer against the wall a bunch of times and then start banging my head and then maybe play in traffic a lot. It is a whole lot like the one they are giving me for the prize I am supposed to get at the end of my surveys I take, which I have basically just quit trying to get and I sent them a message telling them they are discriminating against me they sent back telling me tough - they meet the law so I am SOL.

I've managed a few online forums. The issue with spam is absolutley huge. Automated botnets trawl the internet looking for webforms. When they find them they submit hundreds of posts a day containing random text and links to their nasty Viagra / Cialis / Fake handbag sites. They only need to harvest a few people's credit card details to make all this worthwhile. It's a massive business.

Defenses include human mods, automated filters, and capchas.

I despise those things. I have trouble with them too.

I understand this one - I am the top poster at an LGBT site and I have to track and report quite a few spam entries, thing is if I had to capcha all of my emails or forum entries, I would basically chuck my computer and start simply reading books, I would pay all of my bills by walking into a store

as it is I am very seriously considering joining a commune which will not have internet access - technology is just getting to where I can't manage anything, even at stores I go to I can't run the stupid check stands anymore