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Easy is not enough, Captcha need to be universal also.

For non native english speakers:

"Cheese, cat, mosquito, trousers, elbow and ant: how many body parts in the list?" or "Soup, dog, trousers, house, mosquito or pink: the colour is?"arent as easy as "3+1" or reCaptcha . Not everybody speak english on the interweb...



On the plus side, these captcha are much easier on people who can't see.


> Easy is not enough, Captcha need to be universal also.

Perhaps on the long term, but solving the captcha problem for the english-speaking (or any language, for that matter) subset of the internet population is still a very worthwhile undertaking.


Yes, because capchas aren't alienating enough, we should also let non english speakers out of our non english written webs.




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