Captcha advertising?

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Now, I'm not one to take a swipe at the fine people of The Escapist, but i do have a question for you, why am I getting captchas that ask me about a certain product/site/company? And no matter what I answer it passes the captcha, Level with me, is this some new marketing technique?

Example:

That was my answer, passed and everything.

EDIT: http://www.solvemedia.com/ Explains everything...not sure how I feel about this.

 

[GiantRaven]

Doesn't a captcha system that will accept anything become kind of, well, completely fucking pointless?

 

[fgdfgdgd]

Doesn't a captcha system that will accept anything become kind of, well, completely fucking pointless?

Did an edit after looking up solvemedia...check the link if you're interested.

[small]It made me feel a little used, and not in the normal internet banner add kind of way.[/small]

 

[LimitedPunctuation]

Doesn't a captcha system that will accept anything become kind of, well, completely fucking pointless?

yes to the 10th place.

 

[GiantRaven]

Doesn't a captcha system that will accept anything become kind of, well, completely fucking pointless?

Did an edit after looking up solvemedia...check the link if your interested.

[small]It made me feel a little used, and not in the normal internet banner add kind of way.[/small]

That doesn't explain why you can enter any text to pass the Captcha, which is what I'm taking issue with.

 

[fgdfgdgd]

That doesn't explain why you can enter any text to pass the Captcha, which is what I'm taking issue with.

Because it's for advertising, not a real captcha, it's just to get you to look at a brand and keep it in your memory, Id dare say your answered are either not even bothered with or looked at for advertising research.

 

[GiantRaven]

That doesn't explain why you can enter any text to pass the Captcha, which is what I'm taking issue with.

Because it's for advertising, not a real captcha, it's just to get you to look at a brand and keep it in your memory, Id dare say your answered are either not even bothered with or looked at for advertising research.

So why include it on a website as a way of minimising spam?

 

[fgdfgdgd]

So why include it on a website as a way of minimising spam?

*Ahem*

 

[GiantRaven]

So why include it on a website as a way of minimising spam?

*Ahem*

As in, for example, Solve Media are paying The Escapist money to use it?

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

So why include it on a website as a way of minimising spam?

*Ahem*

"I've noticed that reCaptcha tends to serve up non-text or totally incomprehensible text fairly often, so we're going to test a different captcha system on about half the users (called Solvemedia). This one can mix phrases, animated images, or ads into the captcha instead of the reCaptcha scanned text images - the ones that I've seen so far tend to be a lot easier to understand (the ad-based ones are in clear, plain text).

Some people will continue to see the reCaptcha units, and won't notice any change at all. I'm tracking how many failures each type generates so I can figure out which one actually causes the least number failures.

The Solvemedia tech is based on the same stuff as reCaptcha, so it has reload and audio options too, which most of the other third-party systems don't seem to."

'scapist gets no money. Solvemedia maybe, but not the Escapist. Hell, they might even be removed completely at some point, if they're worse than reCaptcha.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Tech-Team -I suggest joining this group.

 

[fgdfgdgd]

As in, for example, Solve Media are paying The Escapist money to use it?

Okay, I'm no Internet advertising specialist, hence I'm asking what the hell that's about, but I'd figure in a sane world where you don't have to pay to advertise someone elses stuff that Solvemedia gets paid by the companies to include their products/brands in the captchas, they in turn pay site to host the captchas and fulfil their obligation as advertisers to the companies.

 

[fgdfgdgd]

"I've noticed that reCaptcha tends to serve up non-text or totally incomprehensible text fairly often, so we're going to test a different captcha system on about half the users (called Solvemedia). This one can mix phrases, animated images, or ads into the captcha instead of the reCaptcha scanned text images - the ones that I've seen so far tend to be a lot easier to understand (the ad-based ones are in clear, plain text).

Some people will continue to see the reCaptcha units, and won't notice any change at all. I'm tracking how many failures each type generates so I can figure out which one actually causes the least number failures.

The Solvemedia tech is based on the same stuff as reCaptcha, so it has reload and audio options too, which most of the other third-party systems don't seem to."

'scapist gets no money. Solvemedia maybe, but not the Escapist. Hell, they might even be removed completely at some point, if they're worse than reCaptcha.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Tech-Team -I suggest joining this group.

Why thank you, that answers all my questions, Joined the group and now hopefully will no longer make myself look like an idiot. Thank you kind Sir.

Interesting stuff I will say, this new brand of advertisement.

 

[MercurySteam]

The captcha asked me what I thought of Ford Motor Company out of 10. I gave them a 7.

 

[Starke]

http://www.solvemedia.com/ Explains everything...not sure how I feel about this.

Well, as someone who was briefly in a viscom degree track back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, that ad piece actually does make sense. It doesn't point out that banner retention runs at >1% to begin with, but still...

That said, if the point is to secure the site, as Virgil says, this system needs to be tanked. Especially given that there's (apparently) no verification on the user data itself.