Google Blogoscoped reports that Google researchers are testing a new approach to Captchas. Instead of the user entering a string of letters and numbers to prove they’re not a bot, this approach asks users to orient a picture into an upright-facing position.
When Google tested their new Captcha approach internally, however, not all of the 16 users were happy. “68.75% of users (11 users) preferred rotating images, and 31.25% of users (5 users) preferred deciphering text,” the research states.
The idea sounds interesting. The text based captcha is not quite effective as bots can break them. This requires user interaction. Ofcourse, crooks will find a way to break this too, but it sounds good for time being.
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