News Microsoft patents advert-based CAPTCHAs

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/08/28/microsoft-patents-advert-based-captchas/1

Microsoft has filed a patent for advertising images, audio, or text which require users to answer a product-related question to continue.

 

Grrrrrrrr!
I don't blame the marketers, they have to keep spammers at bay and it is a neat idea.
But its gonna be SOOO annoying.

I blame the spammers that force companies to use things like CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA

 

If i am visiting a website that requires me to do this - i will no longer visit the website. simple.

 

So MS want to prevent spam on forums by spamming my web browsing experience with more adverts.

 

i have a fealing that this will just trun people away from all sites that have these new captchas

 

Why don't they use random questions? They seem to be very good.

 

Smart from the marketing perspective, will be met with anger from most else..

 

Microsoft are the anti Google.
"Don't be evil" vs "Be evil and milk consumers as much as possible"

What's so wrong with reCAPTCHA, it helps save our heritage by digitising old books?

 

These concepts to keep spammers out is good. Twisting it to be yet another ad is bad. As has already been stated, I'll just stop using the site.

In fact a few sites I've been visiting for years, mainly niche topics, have recently gone to a pay for access model. About the same price as a cheap magazine subscription. My first thought was anger... but then I realized that the sites have good information (better than almost all others on the same topic), get lots of updates and the admins have worked diligently to keep it spam free. Plus the fact I do subscribe to a few paper magazines so why should I feel differently about a site that gives me the same "entertainment" or even more for a comparable price?

I see this model becoming more popular, especially for niche sites that don't want to get involved with ads and such.

 

Another example of how MBAs and anything computer should be kept far far apart!

Yours in Anti-Advertising Anti-Captcha Crap Plasma,
Star*Dagger

 

Ditto

That's not true at all. Microsoft bring a lot of innovations to the market, they just don't always have the best way of implementing certain things on the first go-round, but they always refine their ideas to match what the consumers want more closely.

 

wow.... that's utterly brilliant .. marketing genius if you ask me.... not that I'd enjoy such a thing however hopefully they refine it in such a way that it doesnt end up sucking