CAPTCHA added to Steam Trading as part of confirmation process

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Valve has added CAPTCHA as part of a confirmation process to Steam trading.

The company said it hopes the addition helps combat malware on users’ machines making trades on their behalf.

“We’re updating trading to include a CAPTCHA as part of confirmation process,” said the service’s John Cook. “We know it’s a bit of a hassle, and we don’t like making trading harder for users, but we do expect it to significantly help customers who are tricked into downloading and running malware from losing their items.”

A few existing third-party trading services have been excluded from the test which checks if you are human, otherwise these would no longer function.

The only issue with the update so far, other than some users being unable to trade, is that current trade offers seem to have been reset.

Others report that the CAPTCHA test is crashing the client. Others report no issues with the trade update.

Hopefully these issues will be quickly ironed out.

Posted: Jan 12, 2015 11:14 pm
Related Forum: PC Gaming Forum

Source: http://www.vg247.com/2015/01/10/steam-captcha-pc-mac-linux/

Comments

OhDiegoCostaPosted: Fri. Jan 16, 2015

I thought captchas were being replaced soon online? Read that bots can accurately do 99% of them (or something like that)

BlGPosted: Thu. Jan 15, 2015

I'm glad that Steam actually cares about their player base, this will keep scamming way down.

XboxPosted: Thu. Jan 15, 2015

This does suck. I hate using those things.

MissPosted: Thu. Jan 15, 2015

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The-Monstrosity This is gonna make trading nnoying , i hate captcha's as i cant read them very well lol

Same, I have really bad eyes and often find them hard to read.

I'm sure they'll have a voice option like most do.

BruPosted: Thu. Jan 15, 2015

The-Monstrosity This is gonna make trading nnoying , i hate captcha's as i cant read them very well lol

Same, I have really bad eyes and often find them hard to read.

The-MonstrosityPosted: Wed. Jan 14, 2015

This is gonna make trading nnoying , i hate captcha's as i cant read them very well lol

BrigandPosted: Wed. Jan 14, 2015

DeluxeHazard I have always found the CAPTCHA test annoying and useless. I know it is so bots can't read the code but half of the time I can't even read the code.

Very true, It makes me think if I'm a bot if I can't read the code myself. Its really useless.

EarnPosted: Wed. Jan 14, 2015

I don't like this being added it's just going to be a pain to trade.

DeluxeHazardPosted: Wed. Jan 14, 2015

I have always found the CAPTCHA test annoying and useless. I know it is so bots can't read the code but half of the time I can't even read the code.