Captchas, while designed with good intentions, have become a source of frustration for many internet users in the context of user experience.Ĭaptchas, short for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” were introduced as a security measure to prevent automated bots from gaining unauthorised access to websites and online services.Ĭaptchas aimed to distinguish between real users and automated scripts by presenting users with tasks that would be difficult for machines but easy for humans to solve. We all know them – those quickly annoying riddles that require us to prove that we platform users are not robots before we can continue with our online activities. Multi-factor-authentication as an alternative to captchas “I am not a robot.”
