Re: recaptchas now unusable

Paul, I totally agree, and Akshay's response to you does not apply to me. I am providing a link to a current sweepstakes entry form whose image captchas are impossible to solve, yet for other reCaptcha forms I seldom see the type I'm seeing on this form. It consists of 2 phrases with hard-to-read characters splotched by a black blob, and nothing I've attempted to enter works. I noticed this type of reCaptcha on several forms this past week when they never came up before and I've simply stopped entering those sweepstakes every time I see these idiotic challenge phrases.Here's the link where these stupid phrases appear:http://bit.ly/1L7Z82j would not be so bad but when you try to do an audio reCaptcha to listen for the numbers they are literally impossible to hear properly, the audio is so fuzzy.98% of my other reCaptcha entry forms do not display these ridiculous challenge phrases and I would like Google to do something about it instead of glad-handing us and providing boiler-plate promotional stuff like "But you should note that Google ReCaptcha is helping millions of websites worldwide by combating spam and bots on their behalf." No one is challenging that, we're pointing to a specific technical problem that good faith users are running into that Google could fix if it wasn't so busy denying a real problem exists in the first place.From now on I am contacting every sweepstakes sponsor whose form has this problem and telling them Google is not responsive, which means they are never going to see the number of entries they were expecting because people aren't being allowed to sign up through this tortuous form of reCaptcha.On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 8:57:52 AM UTC-5, Paul Gowder wrote: At the following link, there are over a DOZEN attempts by me to decipher one of those idiotic recaptcha tasks.  This includes spaces between words, no spaces between words, attempting to fill in the random box that appears at the bottom, you name it.  Has google finally decided to break the internet by making it impossible for humans to sign up for anything?  Is the goal to actually bring more bots into the world, as anyone with access to a high-performance cluster just writes scripts to throw hundreds of thousands of random letters at every stupid "recaptcha" in the world? Is this some kind of cruel prank?   http://bit.ly/1cQ1vuQ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reCAPTCHA" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to recaptcha+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to recaptcha@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://bit.ly/1dkFnYd. For more options, visit http://bit.ly/P65DvS.