Agreed, especially know that there are systems available to defeat them.

Although it isn't free, and I think it should be, I avoid the whole captcha issue by using Captcha Be Gone. It's not often that I need it, but when I do it has always gotten me past the captcha will little fuss.

Okay this is getting even more confusing.
I now go and try the game  and this time the audio works,  I get an audio file playing which tells me "we're sorry but we can't access your request because your network is sending other security information" or something like that.

I believe the audio worked because I restarted my pc, which is insane, however god knows what this stupid securiety thing is.

I have always found google's capcha system to be about the only usable one I've seen, but this is just bizarre! also if I don't hear back from the games' developers soon I don't know what I'll do.

Btw, what is capcha begone/
I tried solona, but everytime I sent the screenshot I was told by the person at the other end "there is no capccha" and even had my account threatened with closure, indeed I never got solona to solve  one single capcha which was odd indeed.

@Jack

Yup! And at less than $40 per year it's not like it's going to break the bank.

@Dark

Captcha Be Gone is a browser add on that solves captchas. They have versions for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and I believe Chrome.

https://captchabegone.com/

Well I've tried capcha begone, as if it does what it says on the tin it should be a good thing indeed.
however I'm severely disappointed thus far.
I tried it on the two versions of the google capcha. On one it said @capcha not found@ on the other it just said @solving capcha please wait@ for a very! long time. and did nothing, just sat there (and by long time I mean about five minutes on the one page).

I hope I haven't wasted my money on this thing.

Hmmm, who is Q?

I have seen those checkbox capchas, but this one isn't like that. There are two versions, version1 or a version 2. Version 2 is the default but I tried 1.

Version 2 it would not detect at all, version 1 it just sits there forever saying "please wait" and fails to solve anything.

www.google.com/recaptcha was the url I was directed to for help, though it certainly did not do.

I also tried it on two of the web game voting sites which are notorious for having stupid captchas, one it didn't work with at all, one, a maths question it solved without an issue, so thus far results are one out of three for captcha begone, well technically one out of three and a half given that it wouldn't work with either rversion 1 or version 2 with the google recaptcha on flight of dragons game.

I hope captcha solving rates are higher than this in the future.

I will now go and cheer myself up by trying out billy vs snakemen, which is an online browser game I've always wanted to play but never been able to sign up for thanks to the lovely captcha, and we'll see if captcha begone can improve its odds.

Btw, if anyone is interested the game in question was flight of dragons. A torn mod but one with an interesting emphasis on crafting and exploring rather than battling, it had more npcs than most plus I like dragons and quests.

Here is a link if someone wants to try the game

And yes its my referral link, I wa shoping to post about this properly in new releases if the audio captcha thing can be solved but since I've not heard from the devs I don't know if that will be happening now.

Well I tried captcha begone on another one and it worked. However ironically flight of dragons, the game that caused the problem in the first place now have fixed  audio captcha alternative, either that or it was a server side issue with google.
I'll try captcha begone on it since it might be that it was not displaying correctly while I was getting that silly error message, goddness knows.

Since I've paid for a year of this I might as well see how it works, as I am always running into captchas, especially in  browser games, I was just disappointed on its effectiveness on the first few I tried.

I haven't found that sort of problem, but as I said a couple of captchas just plane didn't work.
this one on flight of dragons seems to be coming and going.
  the audio alternative worked no problem. Today it worked, but required multiple solutions (at least four), and then stopped working again.

I assumed that it started! working because the admins got my in game mail and solved the problem, but now I am genuinely not sure, I've sent another mail but I'm about ready to give up with this one.

I would use Be My Eyes or Be Specular over TapTapSee for help with captcha solving mainly because you get such mixed results with TapTapSee, where you can ask a specific question with the other two apps, and they are all free.

I hate audio captchas and just ignore them and use Captcha Be Gone on the video captcha instead. The audio is often so heavily processed that it can be quite difficult to understand what is being said. Not to mention that, like Dark, I've found that audio captchas are hit and miss as to whether they'll work or not.

I remember the last time Google captchas were legitimately hard to understand was in 2012 when the numbers had a lower volume than the background noise did . Now, it has almost the same amount of background noise but the numbers are way easier to hear. When the server functions, that is.

apparently the reason people do not use text questions in captchas  that those are easier for spambots to answer.

In terms of preventing spam registrations they don't seem to do much good, though in many online games and voting sites they are used to prevent people botting, which  is one reason they use audio, i.e. sound files rather than text.

Okay if it works, is understandable and quick to do, but not if it doesn't.
I've given up with flight of dragons entirely for this reason though I did leave them a message that if they want the game to be accessible they can contact me.

'Jack, yep, I remember those google captchas with the background noise, those were a pest, but were possible if you listened, the ones I really! hated were the ones where you'd have a heavily distorted voice that was literally impossible to hear, very obviously a system created by people who did not have to use it.

Again though Orco, the problem is a bot script could still pickup the text from the page even if it were the same colour as the background.
That is why they use distorted images that won't respond to ocr.

on the other hand, I don't exactly see how a bot could scan a sound fileand gather what numbers were needed for the captcha (if someone could write such a sophisticated bot, they probably wouldn't be wasting their time making a bot program anyway), which makes all  inaudible and distorted things doubly stupid.

Interestingly enough, Flight of dragons and the hole captcha system is built  on code taken from an earlier version of the torn city game.
Torn city went through several captcha systems to prevent bots, some of which weren't accessible but the devs fixed, and since Torn city is probably the only game I've ever seen where players try to actively swindle newbies (someone tried to persuade me to sell a rare item for a pittance of its value), I could see players there using bots. But hay the game is all about crimes anyway .

Flight of dragons is built on earlier torn code though with a few interesting editions, in particular a far more interesting exploration system, though it seems the implementation of the dodgy google captchas is all their own work.

Just for some contrast I also tried out blade of eternity the other day as well, also built on old torn code, though again with heavy modifications (especially in crafting), and that one doesn't have any captchas at all so goodness knows.

As usual the moral seems to be while small devs are always nicer than huge companies, even some small dev teams can be less than accommodating .

Well you'll get no arguments from me on that score, though btw, interestingly enough just after this I saw a game with a text captcha, so obviously they do exist.