eli5 : Why do websites need to verify if you are a bot?
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It’s fairly trivial for a programmer to create a script that automatically fills forms. If there was no validation, anyone could create infinite accounts or send contact forms with garbage data and eventually either exploit a promo for new users or crash the server by making it use lots of resources. There are many other possibilities but the main purpose is to stop automatic bots from exploiting the system. Not that a captcha makes it impossible but it does make it harder for most cases.
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