Is it just me, or does anybody else find that CAPTCHA’s (in Layman’s terms – the squiggly words you need to type in when signing up to a Social Media website, or something, to prove you’re a human) are getting more and more illegible?

Now, my issue isn’t with the CAPTCHA’s themselves, these are a necessary and useful element. My problem lies with the fact that you now need a degree in Hieroglyphics to be able to decipher them!

Actually, some of them now come with an audio of the word too (to make them accessible), but this is usually restricted to the types that give you two unrelated words side-by-side, as opposed to a random series of characters.

I actually had to ask everyone in the office for their opinion the other day before clicking ‘proceed’.

My guess is that spammers are getting pretty good at fooling the earlier versions of the systems and now the new ones are becoming more sophisticated (and difficult to read) as a result.

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