by Blight Fighter

Joomia Developer  Phil Taylor explicitly share why the do not and will not provide support for Captcha.

Why not you might ask – well simply because CAPTCHA is easily defeated – even the professionals, Google, have had their own CAPTCHA defeated!   Also they are just a pain – sometimes you cant even read them let alone copy them! Because CAPTCHAs rely on visual perception, users unable to view a CAPTCHA (for example, due to a disability or because it is difficult to read) will be unable to perform the task protected by a CAPTCHA.

Captcha is currently the fragile defense for many Web 2.0 sites protecting them from a flood of blight from spammers, sock puppet masters and and sports phishing.  Ironic, isn’t it, that Captcha is also blight.

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