These British-themed Captchas inject fun into proving you’re not a robot
More websites are turning to pictorial Captchas these days, involving such things as clicking on every picture that shows a road sign, or a bus, or a shop front – it’s riveting stuff. Funny tweeter, Gareth Bellamy, has come up with something much more entertaining, as long as you’re very familiar with British culture. Could you prove your humanity with these?
Pissed off with clicking on traffic lights, shop fronts, cars etc when logging into websites, I've created some British specific #captcha tests. pic.twitter.com/e1zYMM529H
— Gareth Bellamy (@thebellow) June 22, 2019
There’s a Vic and Bob Captcha.
Choo, choo, choose Michael Portillo.
Don’t you want a classic Human League album option, baby?
You will select this only once …
Can you detect the Bergerac characters?
Bet you didn’t ex-spectre Captcha like this.
Gareth’s British Captchas have gone down well on Twitter, as these comments show:
I'm 100% backing this 🤣 https://t.co/tNTR1H5eVY
— Kerry Allen 凯丽 (@kerrya11en) June 23, 2019
After being asked to identify “crosswalks” yesterday, I’m all in favour of this. https://t.co/U7uxCJgMXx
— Alex Holland (@Alexlotl) June 23, 2019
They wouldn’t let me log into a website yesterday without conceding that a ride-on lawnmower was a “tractor”.
— Nick (@Nickiquote) June 23, 2019
I think a petition is needed to bring these excellent captchas into use – brilliant!
— Vicky Griffiths (@vic_griffiths) June 23, 2019
Someone named @soapachu pointed out an unexpected bonus for some of the population.
These are amazing. I'd fail every one and never buy anything online again.
— badly drawn bee 🐝 (@soapachu) June 23, 2019
Think of the money you’d save.
Source: Gareth Bellamy