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Captchavertising! by TheNextWeb crew
Posted by Scott Rafer
- February 12, 2008 at 8:02 pm PST
At Lookery, we don’t invent new types of ads. In our world, FBExchange, SocialMedia, Rockyou, and others figure out how to do that.
Out in the broader world outside of social apps, it’s rare that something new comes to light. Boris has found a way to make you type his sponsors’ brands in to your browser. Go, Boris&Co, Go.
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Posted by Scott Rafer, August 20, 2008 at 12:14 am
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Interesting idea and a nice try.
However, this idea defeats the purpose of a Captcha. There is only a finite list of companies one would want to advertise (or a fun list of words to make people type) and it would be trivial to write an attack against any site doing this. Even worse is that the captcha’s used in the above example (one color and no distortion) are easily hacked with OCR software.