Why do we always verify that we are not robots
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The point of a captcha is that it’s something that a bot couldn’t do easily. Originally, it was garbled text, because that was something a human could read but a bot couldn’t. As computers have gotten smarter, we’ve had to change what we ask people, which is why the captchas have gotten harder and weirder.
If you ever get one that is just “check this box”, that one is looking at the way you move your mouse. The way a human moves a mouse is different than the way a computer would, so if you analyze it, you can tell whether a person is a human. Eventually, that will probably not work, if we haven’t reached that point yet.
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