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If Interested in a Free Service, then Don’t Promote it?

August 16, 2011 2 comments

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Half the work that is done in this world
is to make things appear what they are not
~Beadle, E. R.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic
~Arthur C. Clarke’s 3d Law of Prediction)

But magic can sometimes just be an illusion
~Javan

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion
~Barbara Harrison

A hallucination is a fact, not an error;
what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it
~Bertrand Russell   

 

       So, after a storm of angry publications by unhappy webmasters and uninstalls of KeyCAPTCHA plugings, on August 14, 2011, KeyCAPTCHA.com “announced” (by posting a few replies, for example here and there) that the free of charge option of its  service was restored from August 8, 2011 (probably because the last post of KeyCAPTCHA defending its removal was from August 7, 2011, see the same links upward). Novosibirsk time (GMT +6:00)  everywhere in this article.

The most funny thing was that there were no changes in ToS or any descriptions on keycaptcha.com webite whatsoever! But wait, there’s more

How to Lie without being Caught-22 (Lessons Learned from Communicating with KeyCAPTCHA.com)

August 16, 2011 Leave a comment

Wisdom says that a liar should have a good memory. Not true on the internet,  it is enough to manage to change or remove your previous publications.

I and others caught KeyCAPTCHA.com, my former employer, to publicly lie hundreds times and you will not find any such publications.

From my observations, the posts on the forums based on WCMSs  (Web Content Management System)  like

usually let to change posts later, even after replies, whenever an author  likes.

While on

  • WordPress
  • Joomla (after being replied?)
  • IPB (aka IP.Board, InvsionPower Board) Services, how one should tag it in Social Media, I wonder?

do not (but only in a few minutes time immediately after posting) .

CSS Tutorials
What’s the point of permitting life-time changing (or deleting) what some has written, even after having dozens replies, I wonder?

One can check the forum’s CMS at the bottom of a web page and double-check it at webpage souce finding a string “generator”. Here is an example of HTML element from WordPress forum HTML-element:

  • <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 3.2″ />

What about comments in blogs and posts that cannot be edited/deleted?

That’s also simple. KeyCAPTCHA Team has done it many times. It is enough post personal  attacks on a participant the more and uglier the “better” until any sense is lost, then ask moderators, administrators/owner of the blog to delete the whole topic or branch for a flame and/or off-topic.

100% results of topic ensured to delete a thread, branch or a whole topic!

If the results are not immediate,  just return and do it again and again.

08/19/2011 Update: 

In Soviet Russia, spam activity of spam-captchas block human's access (We have detected spam activity, your actions are blocked)


Hilarious confirmation of this shit-technique employed by KeyCAPTCHA itself.
Read all thread!

“We have detected spam activity, your actions are blocked”

In Soviet Russia, spam activity of spam-captchas block human’s  access 

Another technique is to block writers (blog commenters) through its KeyCAPTCHA by IP-address.

This is very clever to self-advertise you, only fans of KeyCAPTCHA and advertising will be able to use internet soon.

How I was KeyCAPTCHAured: a Story of Scammed KeyCAPTCHA.com Ex-Employee

July 15, 2011 Leave a comment
Muck and KeyCAPTCHA Go Together

His business, his website, his KeyCAPTCHA - what about users and employees?

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“If u are not paying for it,
you’re not the customer;
you’re the product being sold”
~Andrew Lewis

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I am a former “employee” of KeyCAPTCHA.com “company”, having worked for it since 11 Dec, 2010 till May, 2011.

I believe that users of KeyCAPTCHA.com external antispam service will be better informed if they know my story of relations with persons providing KeyCAPTCHA service

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But wait, there’s more

Debunking KeyCAPTCHA Myths (3d-party publications)

July 15, 2011 1 comment

It’s non-marketed (non-paid, non-promoted and often deleted at request of KeyCAPTCHA Team) point of view  on keycaptcha.com services.

Judge yourself.
I am only citing the publications of others (to which I have no relation or involvement) or easily verifiable on the internet data.
I even do not publish my info on keycaptcha.com scams as insider (and former employee) of keycaptcha.com

Antispam KeyCAPTCHA.com is being reported as known spammer:

Keycaptcha Plug-in Unpublished from Joomla Extension Directory for Fraud

Keycaptcha Unpublished from JED (oomla Extension Directory) for Fraud

KeyCAPTCHA plugin contribution is unpublished from:

It is not true that KeyCAPTCHA is unbreakable by bots,

as it is being affirmed by keycaptcha.com marketing publications, it is just not being hacked on unpopular web resources. Tthere are hundred of publications debunking KeyCAPTCHA’s invincibility:

KeyCAPTCHA being Uninstalled and Replaced by Other Antispam Solution(s) on hundreds webresources due its to technical or usability problems:

Source: http://twitter.com/#!/luxEffect/status/79158049574617088

  • etc.
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Non-Usability & User Un-Friendliness of Interactive CAPTCHAs

No support of the blind users. 
And interactive captchas cannot support the blind.
Might be this is my lie and slander but I could not find any publications proving the opposite.
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Users’ feedbacks about KeyCAPTCHA:

LOL:

“I love puzzles. I made 9 accounts!”
Cited from:  http://ww.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/exa5e/i_think_this_is_genius_but_i_cant_be_certain/c1boo5w

“What a size!!!” (exclamation of a girl picture taken from keycaptcha.com website)
Cited from: http://joomlaforum.ru/index.php?PHPSESSID=7df383cdc3a55a15eef9216adcc90064&topic=138180.msg752789#msg752789

Gennady
former KeyCAPTCHA Team member
caught by police in cooperation with my former employer (KeyCAPTCHA.com Team) for receiving my salary qualified as extortion

Shocked to Find that an Article Can Be Published with Any Date Irrespectively on the Time of Its Creation (Authorship, BlackHat Web Scraping, SEO Ranking Problems?!)

July 10, 2001 Leave a comment

This post is really created on Sept 15, 2011
but WordPress permits to change publication date

Isn’t it confusing for priority authorship disputes as well as for determining who webscraped, stole?

Note that the link of article still shows:

  • http://keycaptchaured.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/private-testing-the-link-generation-and-public-visibility-of-wp-com-blog-article-during-status-updatespending-review-draft-with-public-visibility

i.e. Jul 10, 2011, the date of I indicated during 1st publishing which I later changed to Jul 10, 2001 while I created it on Sept 15, 2011

Now it is published with

  • Status: Published
    Other choices I’ve tested:
    Published – Pending Review – Draft
  • Visibility: Public
    Other choices I’ve tested:
    Public – Password Protected – Private
History of changes:

  • Initial title:

    Testing Link Generation and Public Visibility of WP.com Blog Post During Status (Published – Pending Review – Draft) and Visibility (Public – Password Protected – Private)