Does anybody else find it insulting when computer programs on websites make you prove that you are a human being?

[Pepere]

I just find it so ludicrous that programming and electrons are challenging me to prove I am a human being.

I mean it would be one thing if a human being was issuing a challenge… and I was interacting with a human being…. But I am being challenged by a computer bot to prove I am not a computer Bot!


As a general rule I usually just say screw it and go find another source for the information I want. The ludicrousness of the whole situation bothers me that much…

Prove that I am human? Sure. I will prove it by showing my annoyance and fickleness…. My independent streak refusing to bow down to the computer overlords. I am such a rebel…. Born to be Wild!

I call on you to join the rebellion and overthrow the tyranny of the dark forces…

 

[Naturescapes_Rocco]

If you knew what they were preventing/protecting, you might be happy that those "are you human" checks are in place!

 

[Pepere]

If you knew what they were preventing/protecting, you might be happy that those "are you human" checks are in place!

Quite honestly there are days I am nearly ready to log in to every account I have a password for and delete them all and to erase my digital presence and just abandon the internet altogether…

 

[Naturescapes_Rocco]

I feel that!

 

[JayP]

 

[Pepere]

The pictographs are bad enough.

The foolish warped letters for ing nonsense words are worse…

I have seen typing in four different nonsense words before the computer decided I was dense enough to be a human

 

[gnatster]

ReCAPTCHA, training AI for Google for years, using us as free labor under the guise of security.