Probably the most annoying thing on Shutterstock. Sometimes I type it in perfectly and it still makes me do it again. Aaargh... Why is this necessary every time? NO other site requires this.
Some days (and maybe Saturday is the day?) I wake up and remember things. Two days of basketball and two to go, making all those picks and watching my brackets go down in flames...
Meanwhile, this morning I was reading the forum and remembered this:
They added the verification when outside software was harvesting data from their system. How soon people forget that detail. (including me) The recaptcha prevents bots from collecting data. Things like keywords, images, (yes YOUR images) and information from ShutterStock. It's not all about login security as much as the whole site and everything on it. Shutterstock blocked ProStockMaster, and other software years ago, that's when this started.
Found it Feb. 2007 they started warning not to give out passwords and information to outside tracking software. The recaptcha was the solution.
http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17139&highlight&sx=1Please do NOT give out or save your username and/or password information to any website, program, or browser for tracking your download statistics. Doing so will only jeopardize the privacy of your personal information and the integrity of our payout process.
Regards,
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