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WTF?! Most of us know the feeling of being faced with a CAPTCHA so irritating that we close the page. Wouldn’t it be great if these tests that separate robots from humans didn’t involve deciphering blurry words or selecting squares containing buses/fire hydrants/signs etc., but were actually something fun, like playing a tiny game of Doom? One developer has taken up that challenge, and it’s certainly an improvement.
Miquel Camps Orteza created the aptly named DOOM CAPTCHA (try it below) and posted it to his Github page. This isn’t Doom as seen on PC, or the hundreds of other devices id Software’s FPS has been made to run on, but a still screen that tasks you with taking out four Doom imps using crosshairs within the allotted time.
An equivalent of 500 years wasted on CAPTCHA every day, Cloudflare says
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CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, a way for online services to separate humans from bots.
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An equivalent of 500 years wasted on CAPTCHA every day.
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CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, a way for online services to separate humans from bots.
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Delivery network services (DNS) provider Cloudflare said it wants to replace CAPTCHA with a new security system after the company’s analysis revealed that time equal to 500 years is wasted on CAPTCHA every day.
You may no longer have to click images of traffic light for human verification on internet
Cloudflare, the company that tells you when a website does not load, wants to replace the current CAPTCHA system.
Shubham Verma | May 17, 2021 | Updated 17:36 IST
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Cloudflare wants to replace the current CAPTCHA system across the internet.
Instead of clicking on image boxes of a bus, you will need to touch or look at a device.
This new system will need an extra piece of hardware though.
If you are reading this, chances are you have visited most websites on the internet. Some of these websites cannot identify if you are a human. So, in the most ironic way, the website asks you to prove you are a human by tapping on image boxes with a traffic light or a bus or a tractor, and whatnot. These are called CAPTCHAs, short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Cloudflare is now set to replace CAPTCHAs across the entire internet.
Cloudflare reveals plan to end CAPTCHA madness
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Cloudflare says the CAPTCHA system wastes nearly 500 human years every single day
Cloudflare reveals plan to end CAPTCHA madness
Web security and network services provider Cloudflare has announced a new experiment to replace CAPTCHA challenges, so users aren t forced to identify traffic lights or bicycles while browsing the web.
Many websites use CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) tools to differentiate between humans and robots, preventing spam. CAPTCHA has a variety of forms, including image- and text-based puzzles, or the common I m not a robot ReCAPTCHA.