sethb

Nope, not all gone. I logged in after finding a hotel (partway through the reservation process) and it wanted a capcha.

sdsearch

1. Mekes sense that it would be gone, since the ability to log in with a PIN is now gone.

2. May not be gone totally. See the post 468 (from last night) on the last page of this thread:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilto...in-update.html

hedoman

Are you kidding me? Cannot be bothered with this crap. Bad has now gone to impossible. I book rooms on MVP site and no hassle there. But hilton.com is way over the line. It's easier to pass a sobriety test on the highway.

MaldivesFreak

For me it's weird. Sometimes I get the Captcha and sometimes not, even on the same IP. And of course this is all post May 01. Could be something to do with the fact that I use the same IP (and do not delete cookies) to log in to 2 accounts.

aww3583

I went 10 days without having to enter a CAPTCHA. It was nice.

Today...

Click "Sign In" and go to the sign-in page.

My account number and password are already filled in.

I click "Sign In".

The page refreshes and says "Please use a CAPTCHA".

I'm then shown a photo of a burrito, and am asked to select similar latin themed rolled food packages below. I select the matching photo and click "Go."

It then says I didn't select the right pictures. The only other picture close to a burrito was a grinder/sub sandwich. Selecting that sub proved to HHonors IT that I wasn't a robot.

Fun.

MaldivesFreak

I think someone else using another PC has signed in from the same IP and so you are asked to use Captcha again. I can go for days without it using the Captcha then it will suddenly ask for one even without the page loading a Captcha for me to view before I hit the sign in button. At least their IT department is getting that right.

kavm

I must admit that Hilton's website is the best tool to prevent anyone from booking to stay there - and I am a diamond! Just wasted 10 minutes clicking on some images and not getting anywhere with CAPTCHA. Found it incredibly poor experience. Going to look for a different hotel.

Saw someone point out to another using the PC. Not in my case - it is my home desktop...

Eujeanie

Really? I haven't had to use Captcha in weeks - just HH number and new password.

steve64

After the new password requirement, the only captcha I saw for awhile was a box I had to click to say "I am not a robot". And even then it was periodic.

Then last night I got the "soup" one for the first time (from my at home PC, which only I use and other then the app is the only device I'd be logging in).
I got it wrong so got a different captcha that was "sandwiches".
Got that wrong so it was then a different selection of soup.

These "food" captcha's are crazy. First, the small pics are too hard to see.
Some of the "soups" looked more what I'd call a "stew". I thought "Shirley, they aren't going to be that picky". So I selected any pic of a bowl with any liquid in it. For "sandwiches" I think it's a wrap that burned me, but I don't remember if I selected or or not.

Points Scrounger

I usually get ice cream, sometimes hamburgers.

sdsearch

Whenever I see a picture CAPTCHA where the answer isn't obvious to me, I just hit the Refresh button and within a Refresh or two they replace it with something a lot easier to see. It takes a lot less time to hit Refresh until you get one that's easy to answer, than to keep trying to answer but getting it wrong because you leave it one that's hard to answer.

(CAPTCHAs work the same at many different sites that have them. Lately I haven't run into them at Hilton, but I have at a few other unrelated sites.)

gengar

Anyone get the steak captcha where two of the images that need to be selected are clearly ribs and not steak?

TomMM

I've stopped receiving captchas but in the past I did get a "meat" product and had a difficult time finding the match.

sdsearch

As a semi-vegetarian, I wouldn't know.

But in general: Any of those silly picture match things, I just hit Refresh until I get something I can do (like read the numbers). I don't even bother to evaluate whether I can do the picture match or not. Life's too short.

Having said that, it's been a while since I"ve seen a CAPTCHA at Hilton (I've only CAPTCHA at some other sites in the past month or two, not Hilton). But those CAPTCHAs are universal; ie, it doesn't matter if you get them at Hilton or anywhere else, they have the same list of stupid "puzzles" everywhere.

nlkm9

I just started traveling again after being "grounded" for 4 months--Im florroed to see that the sign in for hilton is still so screwed up?? matching food or items??
Is this obnoxious captcha there to stay?? grrrr, I wouldnt mind but sometimes I have to clock the I am not a robot several times as it times out.