Is Ticketmaster (or at least their CAPTCHA) anti-semetic?
Posted By Mike Orren in Square Pegs on September 9, 2008
So I was just on the Ticketmaster site, checking out seats on an upcoming show. And like everyone else these days, they use CAPTCHA, making you type words displayed in a graphic to prove you're not a robot.
Lots of sites use gibberish, but Ticketmaster tends to use real words, sometimes strangely linked.
I dunno, but I found this one creepy enough to share, so I took a screen grab:
stu42j, says:
They are using reCAPTCHA which is based on scanned words from books and newspapers to help with the OCR process.
http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
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xdavidwattsx, says:
Who's more evil? Adolf or Ticketbastard?
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Chris Kidd, says:
Theres a semetic joke in there somewhere, im not going to touch it with a 100' pole
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Clay213, says:
You know it explains what they are doing right there on the page with the captcha.
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Jeremy Dunck, says:
Reading is for nerdz, yo.
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Jason Rice, says:
I personally think reCAPTCHA is the most brilliant use of the Interweb ever - bar none. The dude deserves a friggin' Nobel.
http://recaptcha.net/
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Oudekerk, says:
He'll may get a Nobel someday. He's already got a MacArthur Fellowship. Not a bad gig at all!
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