Comments on: Is iPhone Captcha Necessary? http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/08/is-iphone-captcha-necessary/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:29:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: kaiesh http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/08/is-iphone-captcha-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-14738 kaiesh Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:34:25 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/?p=725#comment-14738 As someone heavily involved in application design/coding, I find that some form of human verification is necessary on any web application, otherwise forms are subject to spam from bots. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to implement this on mobile platforms.<br><br>I agree that typing in the same type of captchas used for desktop styled pages is very annoying - it also has the problem that not all mobile browsers can reliably process the javascript.<br><br>It's been a year since this post was posted, but I still haven't found an alternative! Any ideas? As someone heavily involved in application design/coding, I find that some form of human verification is necessary on any web application, otherwise forms are subject to spam from bots. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to implement this on mobile platforms.

I agree that typing in the same type of captchas used for desktop styled pages is very annoying – it also has the problem that not all mobile browsers can reliably process the javascript.

It's been a year since this post was posted, but I still haven't found an alternative! Any ideas?

]]> By: Italian Restaurant http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/08/is-iphone-captcha-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-3453 Italian Restaurant Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:41:22 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/?p=725#comment-3453 I think its not that necessary. Thanks for the useful information. I will definitely check it out. I think its not that necessary. Thanks for the useful information. I will definitely check it out.

]]> By: Charlie http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/08/is-iphone-captcha-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-3452 Charlie Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:51:15 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/?p=725#comment-3452 I'm actually surprised to see you ask why it's necessary. Of COURSE it's necessary. We live in a world of bots and automated registration that only leads to spam, spam, and more spam. If they didn't require captcha for all user-agents, then someone could just spoof the user-agent header to pretend like they were an iPhone and make 10,000 accounts. I'm actually surprised to see you ask why it's necessary. Of COURSE it's necessary. We live in a world of bots and automated registration that only leads to spam, spam, and more spam. If they didn't require captcha for all user-agents, then someone could just spoof the user-agent header to pretend like they were an iPhone and make 10,000 accounts.

]]> By: Charlie http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/08/is-iphone-captcha-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-7664 Charlie Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:51:15 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/?p=725#comment-7664 I'm actually surprised to see you ask why it's necessary. Of COURSE it's necessary. We live in a world of bots and automated registration that only leads to spam, spam, and more spam. If they didn't require captcha for all user-agents, then someone could just spoof the user-agent header to pretend like they were an iPhone and make 10,000 accounts. I'm actually surprised to see you ask why it's necessary. Of COURSE it's necessary. We live in a world of bots and automated registration that only leads to spam, spam, and more spam. If they didn't require captcha for all user-agents, then someone could just spoof the user-agent header to pretend like they were an iPhone and make 10,000 accounts.

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