Blogger captchas

[cellio]

Dear Blogger users,

I would like to be able to comment on your posts at times, but the Blogger captcha (the prove-you're-a-human-and-not-a-spambot image with distorted letters) has been getting harder and harder to read over the last several months, such that it usually takes me 3-4 tries and today I failed after 8. I infer that clicking on the little wheelchair icon is supposed to give me an alternative, but it didn't do anything for me.

Does Blogger give you the ability to whitelist IP addresses? Is there some other way to solve this problem? Or do I need to stop believing that I'll be able to comment on posts?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

I have had the same problem. What, do they think bots run the images through OCR software?

More irritating, on some sites (dailyping.com) the captcha simply does not work under Safari or Opera, meaning I would have to use IE or FF. I can't fathom why something as simple as an image and a text box would be browser-specific, but it is.

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

Normally, you won't see the capcha if you are signed into Blogger with a Google/Blogger/OpenID account

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm glad it's not just me! (I'm sorry you're having trouble too, but I was beginning to think I was just being stupid...)

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Use OpenID, and sign in with your livejournal id.

[byronhaverford.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they have a new supplier. I've found the known half of reCAPTCHA to be more difficult than the usual CAPTCHAs.

http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

[zevabe.livejournal.com]

The handicapped image is supposed to produce a sound, which can then be typed or something. So perhaps turn sound on, then click on wheelchair?

OpenID & Google mail should both be viable options.

[fauxklore]

I haven't had a problem with blogger, but I have had some from Ticketmaster or tickets.com that took me a few tries because downstrokes lined up with the grid pattern they superimpose the characters on.