OK, It's Time To Destroy The Internet

The proper thing to type in the dialog is, in fact, "DIE DIE DIE I HATE YOU DIE DIE DIE"

So evil you’ll wonder why someone hasn’t already invented it:

CAPTCHAs that force you to type in ad slogans.

“Advertisers are looking for message comprehension,” Mr. Jacoby said. “And you know what they say, ‘If you write something down, you remember it.’”

Yes – this is, in fact, why we can’t have nice things.

  • http://rog.gameslate.com/ Rog

    Spam to avoid the spam!

    Never saw this coming. =P

  • http://Website rogo

    Oh boy, the revolution will be monetized.

  • http://stabbedup.blogspot.com/ Stabs

    Just cut out the middleman and introduce capchas that need you to type your credit card number.

  • http://Website Bhagpuss

    At least I’ll have a good chance of knowing what to type in. On the current Captchas it often takes me 3 or 4 attempts.

    Can’t say I have a moral problem with typing in a slogan, either. It’s just some more nonsense words.

  • http://Website Scott

    Not a bad deal for the advertiser if they’re only paying cost per impression, and not cost per click because nobody is ever going to type into an ad.

  • http://Website Scott

    Whoops, meant if they’re paying cost per click, not per impression. :)

  • http://Website mitha

    This is… pure genius.

  • http://Website JuJutsu


    mitha:

    This is… pure genius.

    Not the adjective I would use. Mine would be more…scatalogical.

  • http://trollshaman.blogspot.com Klepsacovic

    I must say, the real life evil geniuses are far more sinister, and mundane, than the movies would have be expect.

  • http://Website Indy

    And of course, judging by the example given, they won’t work as well at preventing automated spam. That seems to be *made* for easy scanning and text conversion.

    Some additional evil that you didn’t mention.

  • http://Www.ihaspc.com Isey

    It’s a shame human kind are such mindless consumerbots. I know I’ll be compelled to buy every slogan I have to type in.

  • http://unsubject.wordpress.com UnSubject

    It won’t last long if it doesn’t prevent spam.

  • http://Website sinij

    Pure evil… and likely future of gaming if adds ever take off.

  • http://Website Aufero

    The people who think these things up never seem to understand that when an advertising method makes me want to bomb the headquarters of the advertiser, it’s also persuading me not to buy the product.

    Or maybe they do understand and don’t care, because they’re just in the business of selling eyeballs to idiots.

  • http://Website sinij

    They *know* they are in the business of selling idiot’s eyeballs to more idiots.

    Idea behind intrusive advertising is that you will alienate some % of audience as a tradeoff of being more effective on the rest.

  • http://Website sleeper

    Just shows how stupid you can be and still hold down a decent career in advertising. Since by definition advertisers won’t be willing to obscure their message, any client who falls for this will just be paying per “bot engagement”.

  • http://Website Elovia

    So which phrase was I supposed to type in? “*Restrictions Apply” ???

    Somehow seems fitting … and a touch ironic.

  • http://beafraid.com hellfire

    The best part of this nonsense is that “regular Joe” will think it’s an improvement because the majority of CAPTCHA text is completely fucking illegible.

    I feel like cleansing fire is the only solution.

  • http://geldonsgaming.blogspot.com/ geldonyetich

    The ironic thing being that they want it to be clear and legible so you can get the advertisement message you’re supposed to be typing, but this same legibility making it easy for bots to bypass.

  • http://Website Brask Mumei

    This is new? Every time I try to use the new fancy voice-controlled phone systems, I’m given options like:
    “If you want to ask about your Brand-named Excellent Quality Product, say “Brand-Named Excellent Quality Product”"

    Soon we will have to write a few hundred words of praise for the product before we will be allowed into the support line.

  • http://Website Wanderer

    Try screaming “I want a human” (with added profanity if necessary). Their voice stress analyzers will get you a human. Or your throat will give out. Either way, it’s a win.

    As for the slogans, at least it’ll make it easy for me to tell what products not to buy: THE ONES THAT ANNOY THE LIVING @#$%#$ OUT OF ME.

  • http://Website Imp

    Another thing, with standard CAPTCHA there are millions of combinations, with advertising slogans there will be a very finite number of options, The bots wont need to OCR the (much easier to scan) ad, they can just hammer sites with a known list of slogans, lots will go through.

  • http://Website Ashendarei

    /sob .

    When will it end? I LIKE nice things :(

  • http://Website Soulflame

    All we need to do now is give credit cards to the captcha bots.

  • http://Website Gx1080

    I love the comments in that thread.

    “Please, take our money. We are too stupid to keep it, just burn it as a tribute to the fake idol of consumerism.”

  • http://Website John Smith

    This really isn’t any less evil than google’s recaptcha system where the poster is forced to do slave labor for google.

  • http://Website Viz

    In some significant fraction of cases, the advertisements are done by a 3rd party and not the actual merchant whose product is advertised, and that 3rd party is screwing you BOTH.