Why didn't someone think of this before?

**Clinton** · July 28th, 2011, 09:07 AM

As my friends here know, I'm not a fan of advertising in any way, shape or form

so I don't like the advertising forced on me here , but I think this is a genius idea.

**grynge** · July 28th, 2011, 09:12 AM

Damn that is a good idea. The only problem I see is they probably should have tried to sell the idea to google first. Google pretty much own captcha so it won't be long before they add it as a revenue stream.

**petertdavis** · July 28th, 2011, 09:46 AM

It's not as good in practice as it may sound. Think un-targeted ads, annoyed members, and a few pennies per day. Of course, this is from what I've seen on forums, it might work better on other types of sites I can only speak to what happened on some active forums it has been put on.

**grynge** · July 28th, 2011, 09:58 AM

I can only assume google will target the adverts and it will probably been more successful for them as people with javascript turned off will have to turn it on to get into whatever the captcha is blocking them from.

**Casey101** · July 28th, 2011, 10:50 AM

Think ads, annoyed members, and a few pennies per day.

It does seem that is would start out that way (being un-targeted) but once it took off and G got hold if it, I bet that would change.

Also, regarding the annoyed members, I have always preferred the "What is the first word in this sentence?" anti-spam method. There is a unique type of frustration that is evoked in me when I have to re-enter a Captcha multiple times, rivaled only by the "server is too busy" message which always causes me to go into a mini-tantrum.

**grynge** · July 28th, 2011, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Casey101

It does seem that is would start out that way (being un-targeted) but once it took off and G got hold if it, I bet that would change.

Also, regarding the annoyed members, I have always preferred the "What is the first word in this sentence?" anti-spam method. There is a unique type of frustration that is evoked in me when I have to re-enter a Captcha multiple times, rivaled only by the "server is too busy" message which always causes me to go into a mini-tantrum.

I use akismet for part of my spam protection this way you never annoy the users or customers.

**DomainMagnate** · July 28th, 2011, 12:20 PM

Indeed very cool idea and I like the explanation video they have. Any idea who made it?

**Andy** · July 28th, 2011, 01:25 PM

That could be a good idea. Is there any reason the ads couldn't be targeted? I think it could be done.

I thought G owned everything anyways?

@Clinton... we need to talk about this advertising thing.

Andy

**Kay** · July 28th, 2011, 01:39 PM

@Clinton... we need to talk about this advertising thing.

LOL! Agreed, Andy. If it wasn't for advertising in its various forms - AdSense, affiliate marketing, etc, etc - some of us wouldn't have any money at all. Just think of poor lil old me with no food, no beer, no roof over my head. Can't afford the monthly ISP bill and anyway the computers have all been sold by now... Would you not miss me?