Captcha broken when creating an Outlook account

[Bruiser]

Does anyone else find the "Press & Hold" captcha impossible to solve when creating an account? I do as the instructions say and they say "Please try again" I tried again like ten times what do you want me to do? The accessibility option is no help either.

[JeremyNicoll]

I have no experience of that type of Captcha - is it on a PC or eg a phone (or a PC with a touch-sensitive screen)?

Using which browser? Do you use plugins, eg ad- or script- blockers?

[somdcomputerguy]

Originally Posted by JeremyNicoll

I have no experience of that type of Captcha

This probably the type mentioned - https://www.humansecurity.com/learn/...nless-captcha/

[JeremyNicoll]

Originally Posted by somdcomputerguy

This probably the type mentioned - https://www.humansecurity.com/learn/...nless-captcha/

Ah, thank-you; indeed I've not seen one of those yet. Despite what that page says, I see no reason why automation can't work them - move a mouse pointer to the button (perhaps via a not-completely straight route), issue a mouse click & hold, wait for a random interval between say 0.23 & 0.87 secs & release it). I would expect/require disabled people using screen adaptive/assistance aids to be able to navigate past such traps, otherwise sites deploying them can expect to be sued sooner or later.


For the "click on every picture that shows a <something> ones", two things especially annoy me:

- the first, by and far away the most annoying is that they push American culture down our throats. Eg I don't want to have to click on umpteen US school buses, or fire/water hydrants. OURS don't look like those (as ours are underground, just IDed by plates over them in the ground & sometimes distance & serial number plates on nearby walls; I expect our firemen have maps of their locations). To use ours, the firemen put a standpipe down the hole and attach hoses to those. We don't have a culture of kids forcing one to spray water over a street on hot days - they cannot - nor of car accidents causing floods.

- the second is not always being sure how strictly to respond, eg if clicking on "bikes" do they mean motorbikes only or pedal cycles or both? Do they mean on squares that show only a bike's protruding mirror, or driver's foot - neither would be there without the bike itself...

[somdcomputerguy]

I believe that "touch & hold"
type of CAPTCHA would be
the easiest to successfully
pass via some sort of automation.
I haven't seen that kind of CAPTHA
either, but if I did I would probably
write a simple AutoIt script just
to see how easy it would be to
do. I basically can't stand ANY
kind of CAPTCHA, but I do know
why some think they're needed.

[Bamb0]

I have heard of alot of ppl having problems with those bloody captcha things......

If they arent gonna make them work 100%,they shouldnt be there!!